Radiation therapy treatscancerby using high-energy waves to kill tumor cells. The goal is to destroy or damage the cancer without hurting too many healthy cells.It is given over a certain time period; it can be given around the time of surgery or chemotherapy. It can also be used to ease...
Combined therapy (especially chemotherapy and radiation therapy) produces enhanced side effects as well as enhanced tumoricidal effect. Implications for nursing practice: Disease and treatment effects in the patient with lung cancer are particularly challenging to patients, family members, and care ...
There’s no doubt that getting a breast cancer diagnosis can be an incredibly scary experience. But, luckily, treatments have come a long way — and this includes one of the most common ones: Radiation therapy. Also known as radiotherapy, it harnesses high-energy particles or waves — such ...
Types of Radiation Therapy Radiation can come from a machine outside the body (external-beam radiation therapy) or from radioactive material placed in the body near cancer cells (internal radiation therapy, more commonly called brachytherapy). Systemic radiation therapy uses a radioactive substance, ...
Radiation not only kills or slows the growth of cancer cells, but it can also affect nearby healthy cells, which can lead to certain side effects. Oftentimes, patients experience mild side effects from radiation therapy and are able to continue their normal routines. The side effects of ...
Radiation induced lung reactions in breast cancer therapy. Modulating factors and consequential effects. Strahlenther. Onkol. 181, 567–573 (2005). Article PubMed Google Scholar Rubin, P., Johnston, C. J., Williams, J. P., McDonald, S. & Finkelstein, J. N. A perpetual cascade of ...
Your doctor might recommend radiation therapy in several situations. It can be the first treatment for cancer that hasn’t spread outside your prostate gland and is “low grade.” The grade is a number that tells you how abnormal your cancer cells look under a microscope. The lower the grad...
Because the antibodies do not attack healthy cells, the possibility of radiation damage outside the tumor drops.What it's used forRadiation therapy is used to treat many types of cancer, including cancer of the lung, breast, prostate, testicles, and brain....
It was concluded that RT for breast cancer may increase the risk of lung cancer after a latency period of 10 years. 展开 关键词: breast cancer radiation therapy radiation carcinogenesis lung cancer late effects DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19930515)71:103.0.CO;2-N 年份: 1993 ...
effective in treating the cancer even as it caused fewer side effects. Overall survival at one year for the proton therapy group was 83 percent as against 81 percent for the X-ray radiation therapy group. This difference tipped slightly in favor of proton therapy but was not statistically ...