There may be no threshold dose below which radiation to cardiac substructures does not increase the risk for later cardiac diseases in children with cancer. Review of 25,481 patients in the Childhood ...

The evaluation of radiation dose in positron emission tomography (PET) is an essential component of modern nuclear medicine. Accurate dosimetric assessment ensures that the diagnostic benefits of PET ...

Prolonged exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation is associated with a higher risk of death from cancer than previously thought, suggests research tracking the deaths of workers in the nuclear ...

Patients with high-risk prostate cancer who had a higher dose of radiation plus long-term androgen deprivation therapy tended to live longer than those who had a lower dose. A higher dose of radiation ...

Federal organizations and healthcare providers are growing increasingly concerned about the harmful effects of cumulative radiation doses. In August, The Joint Commission released a Sentinel Event ...

In definitive radiotherapy, reducing the elective dose from 50 Gy to 43 Gy was safe and did not significantly increase the risk for recurrence in electively irradiated lymph nodes among patients with ...

G_radiotherapy_man Physicians increasingly are prescribing high dose and very high dose radiation therapy after radical prostatectomy despite an absence of randomized trials supporting the practice.

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Energy Secretary Chris Wright killed the Department of Energy’s decades-old radiation safety standard Friday.