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.
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 the benefits of 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.)
Radiotherapy accident in Zaragoza happened in 1990.
one is inside one is outside
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.
Olivier C. L. Haas has written: 'Radiotherapy treatment planning' -- subject(s): Radiotherapy, Cancer, Planning, Data processing, Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted, Radiotherapy Dosage
Radiotherapy accident in Costa Rica happened in 1996.
Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute was created in 2004.
http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/type/prostate-cancer/treatment/radiotherapy/side-effects-of-prostate-cancer-radiotherapy .. this is a very good summary, M.
Radiotherapy is the therapeutic use of ionizing radiation, used almost exclusively for the treatment of malignant disease.
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