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The Radiation Team: The Breakdown of Roles in a Radiation Clinic
To treat cancer with radiation, it takes a team of professionals that work with the equipment, the medicine, the documentation and ultimately the patient. Each role works in symphony and is conducted by the radiation oncologist.
Brachytherapy: Radiation Therapy's Radioactive Seed Technique
Radiation therapy is often thought by the layman as a machine that will emit radioactive waves to bombard cancer within the patient. However another therapy, brachytherapy uses different methods commonly involving a radioactive "seed" implant.
Radiation Surgery and the Technology Behind It
Radiation Surgery is a cancer treatment designed to deliver radiation directly to the cancer within a patient while sparing the healthy tissue surrounding the cancer. There are several different kinds of machines designed to perform radiation surgery. Each machine is suited to target specific cancer growths based on their size, location, and type of cancer cells.
Radiation Therapy: Surgical Methods that Don't Break the Skin
Cancer is nearly the leading cause of death in the U.S., and more and more people need help in treatment. Luckily in recent years there has been a good deal of technological headway that has come about. From identifying and treating the tumors in the body, new radiation technology and techniques have already come into use with a lot of promise.
History of Radiation Therapy
The discoveries of x-rays and radiation by scientists Becquerel and Rontgen in the late 1800s got the ball rolling in radiation application. Radiation therapy today is used by over half of those patients diagnosed with cancer.
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