radiation
2 stories tagged "radiation"
Cancer
The Healing Cells That Cheat Death Carry a Catch: Their Offspring Are Seven Times Harder to Kill
A radiation-blasted fruit fly rebuilt half its ruined tissue in two days, and the cells that pulled it off left descendants 7 times harder to kill, which may be close to how some tumors outlast the treatments meant to finish them.
CancerMD Anderson Made the Case for Radiation Cleanup After Immunotherapy. Then Its Own Trial Undercut It.
In the oligometastatic subgroup the strategy was built for, small and underpowered, the patients who added radiation trended the wrong way: median survival of 42 months against 75.8 for the drugs alone.