With radiating waves, a skull and crossbones and a running person, a new ionizing radiation warning symbol is being introduced to supplement the traditional international symbol for radiation, the ...

The result was the ‘Ionizing-radiation warning — Supplementary Symbol’, a red triangle that depicts radiation waves, a skull and a running human figure. It was launched as a supplement to the more ...

The old radiation symbol was certainly a timeless masterpiece of paranoid Cold War aesthetics, but it only makes sense if you already know what it means. If confronted with the relic of such a ...

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 ...

Radiotherapy has been a cornerstone of cancer treatment for decades, offering a targeted approach to treat tumors. Yet, as effective as it is, it often causes unwanted damage to neighboring healthy ...

Increasingly, though, oncologists are trying to use less radiation, long one of the main pillars of cancer therapy.

Radiation treatments damage the DNA of cancerous cells to destroy tumors. The difference between traditional radiation and proton therapy is in how the radiation is delivered.

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.

The new symbol is aimed at alerting anyone, anywhere, to the potential dangers of being close to a large source of ionizing radiation and will supplement the decades-old three-cornered trefoil ...

UCSF scientists developed a way to deliver radiation just to cancerous cells, rather than attacking both cancerous and healthy tissue. The therapy combines a drug to mark the cancer cells for ...

A radiation therapy for all patients To make this therapy work in most patients, scientists will have to develop antibodies that account for the different ways that people's cells display KRAS.