The description of his daughter sent chills through my body as I realized just how horrible a disease cancer can become. A quickening in my heart opened my mind to the revelation that he was describing the slow, painful, death of his beloved child. Without hesitation and a renewed sense of determination he stated, "I believe in God!"

Whether or not to treat prostate cancer conventionally is one of the major medical dilemmas we have today.

To treat cancer with radiation, it takes a team of professionals that work with the equipment, the medicine, the documentation and ultimately the patient. Each role works in symphony and is conducted by the radiation oncologist.

Breast thermography is a new, non-invasive imaging procedure that utilizes infrared heat-sensing technology to detect metabolic changes in the breast. Because researchers are acknowledging the importance of prevention and early detection as the keys to long term breast health, breast thermography is fast becoming an important diagnostic test to add to health care regimens.

Radiation therapy is often thought by the layman as a machine that will emit radioactive waves to bombard cancer within the patient. However another therapy, brachytherapy uses different methods commonly involving a radioactive "seed" implant.

With the rate of cancers increasing as the U.S. population gets older, the demand for oncologists increases. Radiation oncology is also on the rise and new radiation technology has done much to assist the treatment application.

Most people have probably heard of asbestos and the fact that people who have been exposed to it may go on to develop illnesses.

Radiation therapy often plays a big part in the neurological field of surgery. Tumors have reacted well to radiation therapy in many cases killing rouge cells or disabling their ability to pass on their genetic material.

Cancer of the cervix is cancer that begins in the cervix, the part of the womb (or uterus) that opens to the vagina

Cancer is a terrible disease that kills, but it can also change people's lives for the better.