Luca Valle, assistant professor of radiation oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was awarded a $2.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to develop new methods to better understand the clinical scope and biological factors that lead to prostate cancer coming back after radiation therapy.
Researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered that high doses of radiation cause growth in existing metastatic tumors that weren’t directly treated with radiation.
