Radiation therapy or radiotherapy is one of the oldest ways to treat various types of cancer and millions of cancer patients are now treated with radiation therapy. Radiation therapy uses high-energy rays to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Radiation therapy can be used alone or in combination with other treatments such as surgery or chemotherapy. A patient may also be more than one type of radiation therapy. Radiation therapy is often used to shrink tumors beforeOperation, or it can be given after surgery to try to stop the cancer occur again. Radiation therapy may also be administered together with chemotherapy. It can help to shrink the tumor and help chemotherapy work better when it is administered before or during chemotherapy. It can also be associated with chemotherapy, where they can help to be given to kill any remaining cancer cells.
The location of the mesothelioma is often difficult to use high dosesRadiation, without obtaining significant damage in the surrounding organs, and so some doubt as to whether radiation is effective in the treatment of mesothelioma cancer. But it is quite effective if they destroy the remaining cancer cells after surgery. It may also be effective in fighting the symptoms and help the patient to life with fewer symptoms of mesothelioma cancer. Radiation therapy can be very effective in controlling pain and an accumulation of fluid in the control groupLungs or stomach.
Radiation therapy is a type of energy that is called ionizing radiation, damage or even destroy cancer cells is capable of. It inhibits the growth of cancer cells by making it impossible to grow these cells and to share. It is usually administered as a topical treatment, as it affects only the cells of the treated areas. Cancer cells are not killed immediately, as the radiation therapy is administered. It will take several days for the treatment of cancer cellsbegins to die. But then they will continue for weeks or even months after stopping treatment. With advanced technology of today's beam can be focused very narrowly. Still others can not be destroyed by radiation, the body around the field of cancer treatment. Although most of these normal cells can recover quickly, it is important to try to cancer cells without damaging the other cells of the body, if any harmpossible. The damage to normal cells of the body can be minimized by using a low dose as much as possible, by handling over time, by targeting the tumor as accurately as possible and by the use of certain medications that help some protect parts of the body. Radiation therapy has fewer side effects than other cancer treatments like chemotherapy.
There are three major types of radiation treatments:
• External radiation therapy
• Internal Radiation Therapy
• Systematic Radiotherapy
The essential difference between these three types of therapies, from which comes the radiation. In the case of external radiation, the radiation is beamed to the location of the mesothelioma from a machine outside the body of the patient. With internal radiation, or brachytherapy, chemicals, radiation produced can be supplied directly to the website of mesothelioma cancer by inserting a thin tube into the chest orStomach. In a systematic radiotherapy are unsealed radioactive materials to let go throughout the body. Another type of radiation, which is primarily for the treatment of brain tumors, stereotactic radiosurgery.
The type of radiation is obtained depends on many factors such as general health of the patient, what other treatment that you take your medical history and other factors. This dose of radiation depends on the therapeutic relationship. This ratio is a comparisonwith the damage obtained in the cancer cells and procured the damaged normal cells. It is important to damage the cancer cells as possible to hurt as much as possible to normal cells. External radiation is administered, the most common type of radiation therapy, and patients can also be specified more than one type of radiation treatment. Different radiation can be given either one after the other, or in the same time. This depends on the needs of patientsEvaluation by the physician.
Radiation therapy can be quite an expensive treatment. It is important to ask whether your insurance covers such treatment. Fortunately, most insurance companies cover the cost of radiotherapy, but this may not always be the case. During treatment, you may need a certain kind of food to take in to keep your energy level high. See what kind of food will be directed to appropriate and what is better, while avoiding the treatment. You can stillcan proceed to full-time studies in the early stages of the treatment to work, but it depends on the individual. After treatment is completed, you are very tired and you can decide to stop working for some time but it depends on many factors, and from individual to individual.
Radiation therapy, certain side effects. The extent of side effects depends on the individual and on the other treatments are you that it, together with radiation therapy. Some side effects occur inabout the short term (less than two months after treatment) and in the long term (approximately 6 months after treatment), and some may even be permanent. However, radiation therapy side effects are usually much milder side effects than chemotherapy. Some side effects of radiotherapy are:
Rash near the treated area
Fatigue
Nausea and vomiting
Diarrhea
Hair Loss
Loss of fertility / Amorrhea
Brain problems
CommonProblems
Lymphedema
Secondary cancer
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