Deadly heart rhythm halted by noninvasive radiation therapy
(PHYSorg.com Medicine & Health)

Radiation therapy often is used to treat cancer patients. Now, doctors at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that radiation therapy-aimed directly at the heart-can be used to treat patients with a life-threatening heart rhythm. They treated five patients who had irregular heart rhythms, called ventricular tachycardia, at the School of Medicine.