Sunburn is a radiation burn caused by ultraviolet radiation. It damages the cells of the skin and can lead to several kinds of skin cancer, but it is not itself cancerous. wow maybe im the stupid one but sorry to me that sounds like a reallt stupid question. i mean what the heck!?! sunburn is ur skin BURNED FRIM THE SUN!!! you can get cancer if you get to many sunburns though! doesnt anyone ever come on here?? you should check out yahoo answers!

Bone marrow cells divide rapidly and are susceptible to the effects of radiation.

Internal radiation therapy is used for some cancers of the head, neck, thyroid, breast, female reproductive system, and prostate

Chemotherapy: It involves the use of highly specific drugs, which bind to specific receptors on the target cells, i.e., the cancerous cells and infected cells. However, this technique is more effective in case of proliferating tumours, i.e., live dividing cells.

Radiation therapy: It acts on tumour cells by killing them directly, it being cytotoxic. Due to this reason, chemotherapy is always given prior to radiation therapy, and never after that.

It is sometimes called radiation therapy, radiation therapy, cobalt therapy, electron beam therapy, or irradiation

Fractionation

Radiation therapy works by shooting very small particles of matter into cells that damage the DNA of the cell as they pass through. If directed correctly, such as on a tumor, the damage to the tumor cells DNA causes the tumor cell to essentially commit suicide and die, stopping the growth of the cancer.

It is painless

The biggest difference is that chemotherapy is a chemical that is infused into the venous system, therefor, it is systemic (or affects your entire body). Radiation is local (or it can be aimed a just one certain spot to target a tumor). Different types of cancer respond to one better than the other, and some to both. They also can have very different side effects.

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You have seen sunburns, right? Well, that is light radiation that is considered normal, now imagine if it is two or three times worse. Ten times, 100 times, or even a thousand times as with the Japanese water that I recently saw on the news. Literally, they are cooking from the inside out

Radiation therapy is delivered via external radiation or via internal radiation therapy (the implantation/injection of radioactive substances).

Gamma-rays have the smallest wavelengths and the most energy of any other wave in the electromagnetic spectrum. These waves are generated by radioactive atoms and in nuclear explosions. Gamma-rays can kill living cells, a fact which medicine uses to its advantage, using gamma-rays to kill cancerous cells.They have Dangerous effect so they are not used in MRI.Radio waves are used in MRI.

It can if it doesn't work -- but that's not really the radiation, it's the cancer.

If you mean, can the radiation itself kill you (by causing radiation poisoning), then: no. The radiation dosage is much too small to cause death. Local tissues do suffer some cellular damage, but the damaged cells are usually replaced during the regular convalescent periods built into radiation therapies.

Absorbed dose is the amount of radiation energy absorbed per kilogram of irradiated material.

What kind of treatment? If you went in for radiation treatment and the source was external (meaning you were positioned and the source was set up and/or moved around you), the radiation passes into you and then it's gone. You don't walk out "radioactive" after this kind of treatment. (Proton treatment is slightly different.) The same idea applies to "seeds" of radioisotopes put in the body up next to the tissue to be treated. When removed, the radiation goes with them. If you have been given radiation treatment by virtue of oral or intravenous preparations, the time interval will vary as the dose and the particular isotope you were given. The different radioisotopes behave differently. With a bit more information, a bit less general an answer may have been able to have been supplied.

Radioactivity is indeed used to treat some types of cancer. Electron beams are used for surface cancers due to their lower energy. Proton beams and neutron beams are used to treat other hard to reach cancers. Carbon ion radiation is also sometimes used.

"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."

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