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by killing cancer cells with high-energy waves.
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How does cancer treatment affect healthy cells?
Cancer treatment affects healthy cells by killing them , because the keno therapy has radiation and it kills your cells.
How do the different options, in the treatment of cancer, work on killing cancer?
Chemo kills the cells with radiation in some cases they can zap it with lazers.
What happens in radiation thearpy?
Hi. The radiation is targeted at the offending cells, usually cancer. This kills those cells.
Why radioactivity can cure some type of cancer?
The radiation itself is not the cure. Radioactive radiation is dangerous and kills cells and potentially causes cancer. The radiation is used to kill the cells comprising the cancer (and some of the cells round the cancer). The treatment is very brutal (it makes the patient very ill for a time) but, where the cancer can not be cut out surgically the radiation beams can sometimes be used and in this case, while using them is dangerous, their use can be beneficial in the long run.
. A cancer treatment that kills unwanted cells with drugs is called?
Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill off cancer cells.Chemotherapy is a cancer treatment where chemicals that are especially toxic to cancer cells are administered to the patient.
What type of treatment used to treat prostate cancer by placing the radioactive elements directly into the prostate?
That is called Brachytherapy. Little seeds are inserted into the prostate gland and they are then irradiated. The radiation kills off the cancer cells that are near the seeds.
What is treatment of neoplastic disease by using a ionizing radiation?
The radiation kills cells (healthy & neoplastic alike). IF you can kill the tumor cells without destroying too much health tissue, THEN you can claim that it's a treatment.
How does samarium help kill cancer cells?
Samarium doesn't kill cancer cells. A radioactive isotope of samarium (samarium-153) is used in a chemotherapy agent, but it's the radiation, not the samarium, that kills the cancer cells.
How does Radiology treat cancer cells?
Radiation therapy uses high-energy particles or waves, such as x-rays, gamma rays, electron beams, or protons, to destroy or damage cancer cells. ... But cancer cells grow and divide faster than most normal cells. Radiation works by making small breaks in the DNA inside cells.
How does radiation cure diseases?
Radiation therapy, properly dosed, kills the faster dividing cancer cells at a significantly higher rate than the more slowly dividing healthy cells.
What parts of the body to cells reproduce quickly besides skin?
so hair cells divide really fast too. That's why when treating cancer (rapidly dividing cells) you may lose your hair. Because the treatment like radiation or chemo kills all rapidly dividing cells
What is radiotherapy and how does it prevent the spread of cancer through the body?
It is the use of ionizing radiation (such as X-rays) to kill tissue, It does not prevent the spread of cancer unless it kills all the cancer cells.
