Side Effects The most common side effects of SBRT are: Feeling tired Redness, like sunburn, at the place on your body where you got the radiation Itchiness in the area of the radiation Swelling in the spot you had the radiation Nausea or vomiting if the tumor is near your bowel or liver...
Other possible side effects of external beam radiation therapy are: Tiredness. Your fatigue might not lift until a few weeks or months after you finish getting radiation therapy. Lymphedema. If radiation therapy damages the lymph nodes around your prostate gland, the fluid can build up in your ...
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“Previous research has shown that single-fraction radiation therapy is equally as effective as longer multiple-fraction courses. Single-fraction radiation therapy offers greater convenience for patients, is associated with fewer side effects, and incurs a lower cost. Even a modest change in...
K.Kian Ang, ...Adam S.Garden, inRadiation Oncology (Ninth Edition), 2010 Patient Care during and after Radiation Therapy Before treatment is begun, patients should be given specific information about the acute andlate side effectsof radiation therapy, such as skin desquamation, mucositis, nasal...
proposed an operational strategy for ESSs to allow peak shaving according to the probabilistic prediction of loads to minimize the peak effects in distribution [15]. Yoon et al. have applied a real-coded genetic algorithm for the efficient scheduling of ESS charging and discharging in order to ...