The Therac-25 was not a device anyone was happy to see. It was a radiation therapy machine. In layman’s terms it was a “cancer zapper”; a linear accelerator with a human as its target.

External beam radiation therapy is the most common type of radiation therapy for breast cancer. This method uses a treatment machine to aim beams of radiation at the tumor. The beams pass through your ...

A pioneering new treatment promises to tackle a wider range of cancers, with fewer side-effects than conventional ...

A game-changing new type of radiation therapy cuts time while improving ... this sophisticated machine can create a new, precise plan in just six seconds. "This machine can get a high resolution ...

It uses newer machines that can deliver very focused radiation ... radiation therapy is now widely available at most major ...

Microbeam radiation therapy has proven effective in animal studies against tumours in the brain, breast, skin and central ...

Radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy) is a critically important type of cancer treatment. Scientists have struggled for decades to understand why radiation therapy kills cells from the same ...