In an ongoing effort to develop cancer therapies that provide a better quality of life, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center physicians are spearheading the next generation of cancer treatments that ...

Radiation can be defined as energy traveling through space. There are two types of radiation, ionizing and non-ionizing, which are differentiated by how they interact with matter. Non-ionizing ...

Radiation therapy is used to treat tumors of the liver that can’t be removed with surgery and that are too large for other treatment options. Radiation therapy alone isn’t a cure for liver cancer, but ...

This two-semester course will provide the student with the fundamentals of radiation oncology. The history of cancer and radiation therapy will be discussed. Technical aspects of treatment machines ...

The concerns are not new: exposure to radiation from cell phones and the wireless infrastructure has been believed to increase the odds of cancer in a person. But modern mainstream thought goes that, ...