A pioneering new treatment promises to tackle a wider range of cancers, with fewer side-effects than conventional ...

Radiotherapy can be delivered externally or internally. In external beam radiotherapy, radiation beams originating externally to the patient are directed towards the treatment site. These beams are ...

The source was a discarded medical device containing Cobalt-60, a highly radioactive substance. How did the radioactive material come into contact with the common masses? As per reports ...

AHMEDABAD: To deal with deadly diseases like cancer in the country, the government is trying its best to cure people by ...

Teletherapy refers to radiation therapy given by an external radiation source at a distance from the body. It is the most common type of radiotherapy used in cancer treatment and is usually given by a ...

It is administered in two main ways: from outside the body using X-rays or gamma rays from radioactive cobalt; from inside the body by putting radioactive materials into the tumour, or close to it.

If their shielding water were to leak away, they would give a man a fatal dose of radiation in seven seconds. The hot cobalt “source,” the most powerful yet released by the AEC, got its punch ...

This is better, but radioactive material can still slip through. In particular, we’re interested in cobalt, which dissolves very easily in steel, so it isn’t as affected by the Bessemer or BOS ...