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1. Prostate and Rectal Cancer Radiation - can cause diarrhea, bleeding, rectal pain, and incontinence. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy improves symptoms in 50 to 60 percent of patients, sometimes completely.
2. Cervical and Bladder Cancer Radiation - can cause severe pain and bleeding due to radiation cystitis (inflammation of the bladder). This AMA approved treatment has been 75 percent successful in resolving these symptoms.
3. Radiation to the Head, Oral, and Neck - can cause bone, skin, and oral tissue damage. Open wounds, oral ulcers, the potential for hemorrhage (bleeding), and pain on swallowing are side effects radiation-treated patients can suffer. Hyperbaric oxygen is 83 percent successful in improving symptoms for these patients.
4. Radiation treatment of the Brain - can result in memory loss, impaired thinking ability (cognition), reduced sexual desire, hormonal changes. personality disturbances, sleep disruption, nausea, unsteadiness, and visual changes. These effects often show up months or years after radiation treatment. The success rate in halting the progression of, or reversing, brain damage was approximately 90 percent.
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A 25 year old woman undergoes radiotherapy for a cancerous growth in her neck The radiotherapy destroys the endocrine glands in her neck What symptoms or problems might result from the radiotherapy?
The only endocrine gland in the neck is the thyroid. If it's destroyed, then the patient becomes hypothyroid and must go on replacement therapy.
What are important of radiotherapy?
what are the benefits of radiotherapy
Who invented radiotherapy?
Radiotherapy was invented by Wilhelm Rontgen, who invented the x-ray and Marie Curie who discovered radium, which is a material used in certain treatments and in this case, radiotherapy. (Radiotherapy is a mix of an x-ray that projects radium.)
When did Radiotherapy accident in Zaragoza happen?
Radiotherapy accident in Zaragoza happened in 1990.
How is internal radiotherapy different from external radiotherapy?
one is inside one is outside
Can cancer burn with radiotherapy?
Radiotherapy can cause cancer but you would have to have radiotherapy non-stop through out your live but just a little bit of radiotherapy will only damage tiny bits of tissue that will repair thwm self and not cause cancer.
What has the author Olivier C L Haas written?
Olivier C. L. Haas has written: 'Radiotherapy treatment planning' -- subject(s): Radiotherapy, Cancer, Planning, Data processing, Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted, Radiotherapy Dosage
When did Radiotherapy accident in Costa Rica happen?
Radiotherapy accident in Costa Rica happened in 1996.
When was Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute created?
Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute was created in 2004.
Radiotherapy prostate side effects?
http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/type/prostate-cancer/treatment/radiotherapy/side-effects-of-prostate-cancer-radiotherapy .. this is a very good summary, M.
What is radiotherapy?
Radiotherapy is the therapeutic use of ionizing radiation, used almost exclusively for the treatment of malignant disease.
What has the author Felix Post written?
Felix Post has written: 'The significance of affective symptoms in old age'
