Stephen De La Torre's brain tumor was the size of a battery and close to his brain stem, so doctors found a way to shrink the cancer — and avoid exposing healthy tissues to radiation ...

About 40% of patients with brain metastases who experienced cognitive decline after brain radiation therapy regained full cognitive function within 6 months following treatment, a new analysis found.

While tremendous relief comes from successfully battling cancer, survivors can also experience cognitive impairments caused by the disease and its treatment. Up to 70% of survivors experience trouble ...

Radiation therapy is an outpatient treatment that targets and kills cancer cells while minimizing damage to healthy tissues. Here’s what you can expect. Radiation treatment, also known as radiation ...

A multicenter clinical trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has found that ...

A multicenter clinical trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has found that implanting collagen tiles during brain surgery to deliver targeted radiation therapy ...

Dr. Brian Collins was completing his medical residency at Georgetown University in the early 2000s when the institution ...

A phase 2 trial found that compared with whole brain radiation (WBRT), stereotactic radiation reduced neurologic deaths in patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and 1-10 brain metastases. SCLC ...

Brain radiotherapy combined with ICIs improved overall survival and intracranial local control in SCLC patients with brain metastases. WBRT with simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) showed better ...

Randomized comparisons of stereotactic radiation and whole-brain radiation for patients with more than four brain metastases have been lacking. A randomized trial showed that stereotactic radiation ...