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The importance of radiation is that it can get rid of cancer cells. It is highly useful in helping get rid of tumors.
Radiation therapy may be given during any stage of cancer. Most of the more aggressive cancers require radiation therapy to help get rid of the cancer.
Cancer is not 100% curable. Some of the treatments include: Chemotherapy Drugs and medicines Lifestyle changes Radiation therapy
"No, radiation therapy is only used to treat people who have cancer. The radiation part of this kind of therapy is there to destroy off cancer cells. If someone used radiation therapy or anything else it would make them very ill, and more than likely be fatal to them since they would not have cancer, the radiation would get rid of their good healthy cells."
Sadly there is no easy way to be rid of cancer. Often it requires long rounds of chemo-therapy, sometimes radiation treatments, and quite commonly surgery, but none of these are a guarantee. It will depend on the type of cancer you have and at what stage it was discovered and treatment began.
They can operate to see if the cancer can be removed hopefully they get rid of it if not they want to try chemotherapy and radiation as prescribe by your oncologist they can basically refer you to treatment for this cancer.
if the tumor invaded muscle of the abdominal wall but was not completely removed, this area would be considered for radiation. Radiation has significant dose limits when residual bowel is exposed to it
where the cancer is located in hard to reach areas, radiation may be used to shrink the cancer growth or tumor. Radiation stops the cancer cells from dividing.
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Prostate cancer responds well to radiation therapy
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The success rate for radiation in bladder cancer is 67 percent.