Studies: Radiation Not for All With Cancer
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Many older women with early breast cancer can safely skip radiation after having a lump removed, two studies suggest.
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Some kids with Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma, may not need to undergo radiation treatment, German doctors have found.
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NEW YORK  - Workers at one U.S. nuclear facility have suffered higher-than-average rates of certain cancers, a study shows -- suggesting that on-the-job exposures are to blame.
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NEW YORK  - As a treatment for breast cancer, radiation, even modern regimens, appears to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute for March 7.
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Radiation treatments routinely given  after surgery to remove small breast tumors may not be  necessary for women over 70 if they are taking the cancer drug  tamoxifen, according to researchers.
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A UK panel examining radiation risks says official estimates of the dangers to health may be wide of the mark - but not substantially.
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People facing the prospect of cancer treatment typically expect to suffer numerous side effects -- often more than is actually likely -- a study suggests.
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Radiation treatments routinely given after surgery to remove small breast tumors may not be necessary for women over 70 if they are taking the cancer drug tamoxifen, according to researchers.
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Rapidly growing number of cancer patients may in fact be the Chernobyl&#39;s aftereffect, scientists claim. A new study suggests more than 800 people in northern Sweden developed cancer as a result of the radioactive
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People who have full-body CT screenings to detect potential health problems are exposed to about as much radiation as some survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, a study in today&#39;s journal Radiology reports.
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NEW YORK  - Women with cervical cancer who  get radiation therapy at small, local facilities are less  likely to be treated effectively, researchers report.
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Experiments with mice show that ultraviolet A (UVA) radiation does not initiate melanoma skin cancer, but ultraviolet B (UVB) does.
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Among individuals who develop lung cancer, there appear to be differences between smokers and nonsmokers in survival rates and in individuals patient characteristics, researchers report. They say the findings indicate that lung cancer in nonsmokers is a specific disease, which has implications for research and clinical trials.
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The increased risk of cancer  from the radiation used in a CT scan is negligible compared  with the benefits for children who need a scan, according to  investigators at Cincinnati&#39;s Hospital for Children in Ohio.
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NEW YORK  - The increased risk of cancer from the radiation used in a CT scan is negligible compared with the benefits for children who need a scan, according to investigators at Cincinnati's Hospital for Children in Ohio.
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but a longer life is not one of them, researchers reported yesterday. Writing in The Journal of Clinical Oncology
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After nearly a decade of debate, no one can say for sure whether radiation from cell phones is harmful to humans or not. So researchers are conducting a series of independent studies to try to settle the matter. By Joanna Glasner.