Yes.
Ionizing radiation (high frequency ultraviolet rays, x-rays, and gamma rays) damages DNA.
Some viruses and mutagenic chemicals also damage DNA.
Typically a single photon or a single molecule damages only one small piece of DNA, and the rest of the DNA in the cell continues to operate normally.
When DNA is damaged, there are 4 possible effects:
(1)
Some DNA damage has no effect.
The vast majority of the time, DNA damage is repaired by specialized repair protiens.
Unrepairable mutation in "junk DNA" areas outside any of the roughly 20 000 genes in the DNA apparently has no effect on functioning the cell.
Unrepairable damage in any one of the roughly 20 000 genes in the DNA often has no effect on the functioning of the cell -- for example, muscle cells normally never produce insulin or hemoglobin or keratin, and so if a mutagen damages a muscle cell in the gene coding for any of those proteins, it has no effect.
(2)
Some kinds of DNA damage make it impossible for a cell to divide.
(3)
Some kinds of unrepairable damage more or less immediately kill the cell.
In some of these cases, DNA damage is recognized by the cell, and trigger apoptosis -- programmed cell death.
(4)
When unrepairable damage hits any part of the DNA that controls the correct timing of replication -- any of the tumor-suppressor genes -- then uncontrolled replication (cancer) can result.
Unfortunately, the DNA in cancer cells cannot be repaired.
The best we can do is try to stop the cancer cells before they cause more problems.
One way to do that is with ionizing radiation.
We all know that radiations slowly kills the cells therefore causing cancer. But you can also use radiation to slowly kill the cancer cells which can take 2-3 weeks.
Yes radiation can cure certain disease.
radiation
Yes it is. Sometimes by itself and other times in combination with chemotherapy.It is ver effective in treating many types of cancer.
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.
If a human is exposed to radiation the may get radiation sickness, and cancer (although it can be used to treat cancer)
Radiation and chemotherapy used to treat the cancer kills the hair roots.
"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."
Radiation therapy uses high-energy radiation from x rays and gamma rays to kill the cancer cells.
Surgery, radiation, and sound, are used to treat cancer.
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Radiation also is used in the treatment of patients with metastatic disease. It is particularly useful in shrinking metastatic colon cancer to the brain.
Because it is high powered, it gives out radiation, which is what they use to treat cancer. it wouldn't be as effective as Chemotherapy as this uses high radiation to almost burn the cancer, but it would at least keep it at bay for a bit?
Radiation therapy is typically used to treat certain types of skin conditions; as well as certain types of cancer.