Control of cancer in sites that represent the first stages of spread from the local origin.  

The scanning or imaging (with ultrasound, say) of an entire object, or a cross-sectional slice of the object, at a...

For many years the fluorescent material calcium tungstate was used as the basis of x-ray intensifying screens. In recent years,...

A radioactive substance used for most of this century to fill the needles and tubes required for brachytherapy. Radium use...

Drugs that enhance the killing effect of radiation on ceils. If radiosensitizers can be selectively introduced into the cells of...

That portion of the electromagnetic spectrum with frequencies lower than about 10¹⁰ Hz.  

A measure of the response of tissue to ionizing radiation.  

The treatment of cancer using radiation.  

A uterus that inclines downward and backward; also called a "tipped" uterus. This condition occurs in about 20 percent of...

A phenomenon found among boys before puberty in which one or both testicles are pulled up out of the scrotum...