radiation

(University of Nottingham) Researchers at the University of Nottingham have shown an association between certain past diagnostic radiation procedures and an increased risk of young-onset prostate cancer -- a rare form of prostate cancer which affects about 10 percent of all men diagnosed with the disease.

(Health Physics Society) The HPS 2008 Midyear Topical Meeting of the Health Physics Society, which will take place July 14-17, 2008, in Pittsburgh, Pa., at the David Lawrence Convention Center.

Approximately 900 attendees are expected, with nearly 260 presentations throughout the four days.

If radiation/chemo doesn't kill cancer cells, it makes them stronger. But targeting a protein in tumors called HIF might wipe them out.

A high-tech procedure that delivers radiation deep within the brain relieved symptoms in half of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder who got no help from medication or talk therapy, a small study shows.

A drug which may protect the body against radiation, such as that in cancer treatments, is developed by US scientists.

A study shows an antioxidant found in red wine destroys cancer cells from the inside and enhances the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy cancer treatments.