External beam partial breast irradiation is the most cost-effective method for treating postmenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer based on utilities, recurrence risks and costs when compared ...

The safe long term disposal of high level nuclear waste from reprocessing has proven to be problematic worldwide with few countries having a long term strategy. This may be due to a range of reasons, ...

Plastics like Teflon are famously durable—and infamously difficult to recycle. But a breakthrough from researchers at the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) may offer a ...

Gamma irradiation of food is a simple, reliable, and mature technology. However, more use of alternative irradiation technologies, based on electrically generated sources, would help complement the ...

Radiation therapy is a critical element of breast-conserving therapy that has been shown to yield a substantial improvement in local control and a modest improvement in survival. 1 In most studies of ...

Plastics like PTFE, commonly known as Teflon, are durable, yet difficult to decompose. Moreover, traditional methods for decomposing PTFE require extremely high temperatures and massive energy inputs.

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. (TOKYO:6302) (“SHI”) today announces that Samsung Medical Center (“SMC”) in Seoul, Korea has commenced proton therapy *1 and the opening ...

Sploid reader Andrew Seltzman sent us these videos of his custom-made radiation-shielded GoPro camera going under an industrial irradiator and getting bombarded by X-rays. Reminder: Getting irradiated ...

Proton therapy is becoming an established precision cancer treatment. Studies comparing outcomes of proton and X-ray therapy, however, are mostly retrospective clinical or in vitro cell studies — ...