News tagged with 'Radiation'

The indoor tanning industry is steeling itself against possible new FDA regulations amid emerging information finds tanning booths may be more dangerous than the ultraviolet radiation from the sun.

Multiple CT scans deliver a cumulative dose of radiation and currently it is up to the patient to talk to their doctor to determine if the image is necessary. The FDA is addressing at least part of the concern.

A percentage of the population may be more sensitive to the radiation given off of full body scans increasingly used at airports, according to a government report. Meanwhile a privacy rights group finds that TSA did request full-body scanners have the capability to store and send the full body scan images, despite a denial by TSA that images can't be stored or sent.

CT scans, commonly used to get a 3-D picture of the body, pose a higher risk of cancer than previously thought, concludes two published studies, and may be responsible for 29,000 future cancers, particularly in the abdomen and pelvis.

34 stroke patients who received CT perfusion scans, have been added to the list of radiation overexposed patients at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. This is the third Los Angeles area hospital to report that its scanners delivered excessive radiation. 256 at Cedars-Sinai have been identified as well.

A Danish study finds that there is no increase in brain tumors during a time when mobile phone use escalated. But the author cautions that tumors may take a longer time to develop. Meanwhile consumers can take certain precautions, just in case.

With three law firms and Erin Brockovich involved, the still mysterious cancer cluster at The Acreage in Palm Beach County is slowly moving toward litigation and some answers that the state of Florida has, so far, been unable to provide.

In a landmark long-term study, the World Health Organization (WHO) is about to announce that long-term cell phone use is linked to a higher risk of developing brain cancer.

Sen. Edward Kennedy died Tuesday night of a malignant glioma, the most common type of brain cancer, which kills about 13,000 patients a year.

Being treated for cancer generally means preparing your body for the fight of your life. So supplements, especially antioxidants such as vitamins C and E, beta carotene, or selenium are taken by many patients. This study warns patients they may provide a protective effect to cancer.

Daniel Hauser and his mother who spent a week on the run to avoid forced chemotherapy to treat his cancer, have returned home to Minnesota. They are required to appear in Brown County court today for a custody hearing.

A Minnesota judge gave the parents of 13-year-old Daniel Hauser until May 19 to select an oncologist to treat his Hodgkin's lymphoma. But mom and son did not appear in court yesterday and the judge has issued an arrest warrant.

The parents of 13-year-old Daniel Hauser cannot choose an alternative treatment for his cancer.  Instead the judge says they have until May 19 to select an oncologist and treat his Hodgkin's lymphoma with chemotherapy and radiation. 

Adding radiation therapy to standard drug treatment can cut half the death rate from advanced prostate cancer and should become the standard of care globally, suggests Swedish researchers.

Milk duct breast cancer had typically had a worse prognosis in younger women, but this research out of Philadelphia's Fox Chase Cancer Center, found that a combination of multiple surgeries, radiation and targeted radiation led to outcomes similar to survival for older women.