Radiation therapy (RT) is one of the main treatments administered to patients with cancer. The development of technology has improved RT accuracy by allowing more precise delivery of high doses to the target volumes with reduced exposure of healthy tissue. Life expectancy has increased due to ...
This treatment can cause side effects, but they're different for everyone. The ones you have depend on the type of radiation you get, how much you get, the part of your body that gets treatment, and how healthy you are overall. There's no way to predict how radiation will affect you....
This treatment can cause side effects, but they're different for everyone. The ones you have depend on the type of radiation you get, how much you get, the part of your body that gets treatment, and how healthy you are overall. There's no way to predict how radiation will affect you....
Acute and chronic complications have a great impact on their oral function and quality of life. This paper provides an overview of the side effects of radiation therapy on children's oral and dental tissues, and highlights appropriate preventive guidelines and management strategies to minimize these ...
What is radiation therapy? This lesson will outline what it is, what it's used for, different types, and the possible side effects from this treatment. What Is Radiation Therapy? Radiation therapy is a type of treatment used to attack cancer cells and shrink tumors. Radiation therapy uses ...
Opdivo side effectsThe most common side effects of Opdivo when used alone are:nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, loss of appetite, diarrhea, constipation; mouth sores, altered sense of taste; itching, rash, redness, or blisters on your hands or feet; hormonal problems; liver problems; numbness, ...
Late side effects of radiation treatment for head and neck cancer Purpose of this review of medical literature is to present the immediate side effects of radiation therapy for head and neck cancer and their treatment. Th... I Brook - Korean Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology 被引量...
Around 50% of patients with solid malignant tumours receive radiation therapy with curative or palliative intent at some point in the course of their disease. Early and late side effects limit radiation dose and might affect the long-term health-related quality of life of the patient. The classi...
Coia LR, Myerson RJ, Tepper JE. Late effects of radiation therapy on the gastrointestinal tract. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 1995;31(5):1213–36. ArticleCASPubMedGoogle Scholar Shadad AK, Sullivan FJ, Martin JD, Egan LJ. Gastrointestinal radiation injury: symptoms, risk factors and mechan...
Medications and other therapies can help ease many of these side effects. Loss of Appetite Radiation, chemo, immunotherapy, some hormonal therapies, and even some pain meds can make you less hungry and lead to loss of appetite or taste, all of which can make it hard to get the nutrition ...