by American Society for Radiation Oncology Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainA type of head and neck cancer predominantly diagnosed in people who reside in low- and middle-income countries may be treated effectively with fewer but higher doses of radiation, a large new international study suggests. The study—a randomized phase III clinical trial involving 10 countries across...
This paper is interesting as a first step on the way to further research into compensatory therapies that can reduce the cardiac muscle dysfunction of heart failure. One-time radiation therapyappears to persistently change cardiomyocyte behavior via altered epigenetic regulation of notch signaling, leading to modestly improved heart tissue function. Perhaps this should be taken as supportive of efforts to more directly target this regulatory pathway in...
