Tiny, peculiar and creepy but in a cuddly sort of way, eight-legged tardigrades—also known as “water bears”—may help advance radiation safety in medical imaging. 

BOSTON—Compared with conventional radiation therapy (RT), larger-dose RT delivered over a shorter period—called hypofractionated RT—has previously proven just as efficacious for treating low-risk, early-stage prostate cancer. Now researchers have further shown that, despite the increased doses, hypofractionated treatments do no clinically significant harm to these patients’ quality of life (QOL). 

Albert Einstein's assertion that his mathematical thinking was "part visual" might hold more weight, according to a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers uncovered further evidence of the brian's adapbility and resliency when they found that blind individuals may use parts of the brain reserved for vision to solve math problems.

BOSTON—Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRC) has beaten the pants off conventional radiation therapy in the Veterans Health Administration, significantly boosting both overall and lung cancer-specific survival in thousands of patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the first decade of the 21st century. 

BOSTON—If given the chance to choose between two recurrence-busting radiotherapy methods, many patients who have had a metastatic tumor resected from their brain would likely choose finely targeted stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) applied only to the surgical bed of the resected lesion over radiation therapy applied to the entire brain. 

Helping radiation oncologists learn from their own medical errors, adopt standardized best practices and participate more prominently in the Obama administration’s “cancer moonshot”: Those three areas of activity currently top the priority list of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). 

The growing influence of artificial intelligence and deep learning in healthcare has led some writers to theorize that certain specialties, including radiology, would soon be “replaced” by machines.

An interventional radiologist in Coimbatore, India, has saved the life—and preserved the kidneys—of a patient who arrived at the hospital riddled with benign kidney tumors and beset by a renal aneurysm, according to the Times of India.