It was a radiation therapy machine. In layman’s terms it was a “cancer zapper”; a linear accelerator with a human as its target. Using X-rays or a beam of electrons, radiation therapy ...

A linear accelerator is a large machine that sends radiation to a patient’s tumor, killing cancer cells with the goal of weakening and, hopefully, eventually destroying the tumor. This is called ...

Most radiation therapy uses machines called linear accelerators. These machines direct high-energy x rays at specific cancer cells in a patient's body, shrinking or removing them. Radiation therapists ...

New radiotherapy machines at Colchester Hospital have already helped half appointment times for cancer patients. The Varian Halcyon linear accelerator machine at Colchester Hospital is part of a ...

Radiation therapy is a cancer treatment that uses high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells Read on to learn how ...

Guam Regional Medical City announced the addition of Dr. Kin-Sing Au, a board-certified radiation oncologist with more than ...

Guam Regional Medical City has added Dr. Kin-Sing Au, a board-certified radiation oncologist with more than 30 years of ...

Central University Hospital announced on the 10th that it has introduced a state-of-the-art linear accelerator that can ...

and the number of institutions that operate linear accelerators or cyclotrons and manufacture and distribute radiopharmaceuticals, for example, is significant and increasing. The production of ...

The wait for a fourth Linear Accelerator, which performs radiation therapy procedures ... but the improved technologies in the new machine are expected to allow it to handle more than an extra ...