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Radiation therapy kills malignant tumor cells by breaking them apart.
Neutron therapy can treat larger tumors than conventional radiation therapy
it kills tumor cells by breaking them apart
Radiation therapy is used to treat splenomegaly, spleen pain, bone pain, tumors in certain places such as next to the spinal cord, and fluid accumulation inside the abdomen
"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 is often used for treatment of large tumors when preservation of sight is possible.
bone and brain metastases
Radiation therapy is typically used to treat certain types of skin conditions; as well as certain types of cancer.
Radiation therapy uses high-energy radiation from x rays and gamma rays to kill the cancer cells.
Radiation Therapy is therapeutic. This means that radiation is used to treat cancer and some other diseases. Although there is some overlap, Nuclear Medicine is primarily diagnostic in nature which means that radioactive isotopes are used to make a diagnosis.
A dosimetrist is part of the radiation oncology team. They help to treat cancer patients using radiation therapy. They are responsible for calculating the radiation dose and dose distribution.
Both are used and can prove to be very effective. A hysterectomy can also be performed.