Radiation treatments, also known as radiation therapy, are used commonly to help shrink tumors and destroy cancer cells. The therapy uses X-rays, gamma rays or charged particles to help treat your cancer. Radiation therapy may be a stand-alone...
Coping with a new diagnosis of cancer is difficult to accept, but now is the time to make improvements in your nutritional habits to best battle this disease. Radiation treatments are prescribed to kill tumor cells and prevent cancer progression....
Radiation therapy, or radiotherapy, is one of the principal forms of cancer treatment. Radiation may be employed alone or in conjunction with surgery or chemotherapy. External radiation treatments involve delivery of the radiation through the skin...
Radiation treatment is the controlled deliverance of high doses of x-ray beams to the site of a cancerous lesion. The energy beams are sent from a device called a linear accelerator to the patient's body. Precise delivery of the dose of radiation...
Lymphoma is a cancer occurring in the lymph nodes and other lymph tissues of the immune system. A common treatment for lymphoma is radiation therapy directed at the lymph nodes. Radiation therapy may be used as the primary treatment, or may be...
Complications from radiation treatments to the brain hinge on several factors including the total radiation delivery dose, dose per treatment, total body area irradiated and time between treatments. Some effects may occur immediately, or within...
Patients who have had breast-conserving surgery such as a lumpectomy to remove a tumor may receive radiation therapy after the surgery to destroy any cancer cells that remain. External beam radiation is the most frequently used radiation treatment...
Endometrial cancer is cancer of the endometrium, which is the lining of the uterus. The majority of cases of endometrial cancer are diagnosed in women older than 50, and a woman has a 1 in 40 lifetime chance of being diagnosed with the disease,...
Brain cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in people younger than 35 in the United States, according to oncologychannel.com. Of the 17,000 Americans diagnosed each year, almost 13,000 die. To prevent these deaths, doctors use...
The word "radiation" often carries connotations of tissue damage, since many forms of radiation can damage cellular structures and genetic material. Rapidly-growing cells, however, are more susceptible to damage than those that grow more slowly....
In the treatment of prostate cancer, radiation is often involved, which can be external or internal. External radiation involves the use of an x-ray type machine, which sends rays directly into the area that has been affected by cancer. Internal...
Each year, approximately 240,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in the United States, according to MedlinePlus, a website of the National Institutes of Health. Men with prostate cancer can help fight off this disease by utilizing a number...
In the United States, one in eight women will suffer from breast cancer during her lifetime according to BreastCancer.org. However, with advances in research, incidence rates and death rates have gradually decreased since 1991; but breast cancer...
Radiation therapy is an extremely effective method of destroying any cancer cells that remain after surgery and reduces the risk of breast cancer recurrence by 70 percent, according to Breastcancer.org. Radiation is delivered in multiple doses and...
Radiation therapy is a rite of passage for thousands of cancer patients---and one that leaves many of them cancer-free. But side effects of radiation, including nausea, can make it hard to maintain a healthful diet. You might need to revamp your...
Head and neck cancers include tumors of the nasal cavity, mouth and throat. The American Cancer Society estimates the diagnosis of more than 49,000 new cases of head and neck cancer in the United States in 2010, with approximately 70 percent of...
Radiation therapy, also called radiotherapy, is a form of cancer treatment in which high doses of radiation are used to eliminate cancer cells and prevent them from spreading. Since your body utilizes substantial amounts of energy to heal during...
Radiation treatment involves the use of X-rays to kill cancer cells, but this often damages healthy cells in the process and causes many side effects. The salivary glands are often affected when radiation occurs in the head and neck. Damage to...
Radiation treatments for cancer include external beam radiation therapy and internal radiation therapy treatments. When patients receive external beam radiation treatments, they are not radioactive and no precautions for the family are necessary....
Many people who battle cancer undergo radiation treatment, also called radiotherapy, to kill cancer cells and rid themselves of the disease. Whether radiation treatment is used alone of in conjunction with treatments like surgery and chemotherapy,...
Upon exposure to high doses of radiation, cancer cells acquire massive amounts of DNA damage, rendering the cells unable to survive and grow. With several radiation treatments and resulting waves of cancer cell death, doctors may induce cancer...
Radiation therapy (also known as radiotherapy) is a standard type of cancer treatment. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) says the most common form of radiation therapy is called external beam radiation. It points high-powered x-rays straight...
The colon is lined with epithelial cells, which can develop genetic mutations that cause them to grow abnormally quickly. When the cells develop the ability to invade surrounding tissues, they are called cancer cells. One way in which colon cancer...
Axillary radiation treatment is often used in the treatment of breast cancer. The axillary lymph nodes are tiny organs located close to the breasts that are involved in the immune response. Because of this close proximity to the breasts, cancer in...
Radiation is commonly used to treat prostate cancer, killing the cancer cells with high-energy radiation beams. A variety of radiation treatment types may be used. The options are grouped into external and internal radiation treatments. Those...
Cervical cancer occurs when the cells of the cervix divide uncontrollably, eventually damaging the surrounding normal tissue. Doctors utilize various approaches to treat cervical cancer, including radiation therapy which involves the use of...
According to MayoClinic.com, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States as of 2010. Even with therapy--surgery, chemotherapy and radiation--the survival rate after five years is less than 15 percent, according to Dr....
The American Cancer Society reports prostate cancer is the most common cancer among American men, and the second most frequent cause of male cancer deaths. Radiation treatments are one therapeutic option available for prostate cancer management....
External beam radiotherapy, or radiation, has been utilized as one of the various treatments for localized prostate cancer. It can be used by itself or in conjunction with surgery as a therapeutic modality. However, like all medical treatments it...
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