With darting red and green beams above me and large mechanical eyes and grids humming and moving around me, I feel as though I’m in a 1950s sci-fi movie.

Treating high-risk, asymptomatic bone metastases with radiation may reduce painful complications and hospitalizations and possibly extend overall survival in people whose cancer has spread to ...

Bone scans show changes in your bones, but they don’t tell you if it’s because of cancer or not. You may have to have other tests to figure out what the changes mean.

Doctors at Saint Elizabeth Healthcare are among the first in the region to utilize a groundbreaking technology to treat joint pain.

Radiotherapy means the use of radiation, usually x-rays to treat cancer. For bone cancer, doctors use a type of radiotherapy called external radiotherapy. You don't routinely have radiotherapy for all ...

This therapy is used to shrink cancer cells in the bone and manage bone pain. Radiation therapy is painless, and lower doses are unlikely to cause side effects. Chest or spine radiation may cause ...

Bone scans have been found to overstage prostate cancer at initial staging compared to prostate specific ... “Rather than receiving definitive radiation treatment for localized disease, ...

Here’s what to expect before getting a bone density scan, ... The DEXA scan produces very low levels of radiation, ... certain medications can become part of an osteoporosis treatment plan.

In cases of severe bone density loss, certain medications can become part of an osteoporosis treatment plan. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Here’s what to expect before getting a ...

What's new in proton therapy? Read the latest news and views from Fred Hutch's proton therapy facility’s patients and ...

While data is promising, many questions remain about topics such as timing and doses in the treatment of hematologic malignancies.