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Radiation therapy or radiotherapy mainly involves medical use of ionizing radiation as apart of cancer treatment. It directly attacks on the DNA of the cancer cells to get them damaged. DNA is a main... |
Radiation therapy or radiotherapy mainly involves medical use of ionizing radiation as apart of cancer treatment. It directly attacks on the DNA of the cancer cells to get them damaged. DNA is a main functional unit of a cell. Thus the cancer cell’s reproduction stops.
Radiation and bone cancer are related with each other as treatment and disease. Bone cancer is also known as bone tumor. Cancer that spreads to bones from the other part of the body is a bone cancer. There are different kind of bone cancers and are treated differently.
Radiation therapy is mainly used to treat bone and thyroid cancer. Experts prefer radiation therapy for bone cancer. Radiation therapy can be used alone. Otherwise surgery or chemotherapy is used in combination with therapy almost anywhere within. It depends on the selection of affected area. Research is going on developing new techniques that are effective in providing higher radiation doses to cancer cells so that to protect normal cells.
External Beam Radiation and Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) are the advanced techniques which are powerfully used to make your fight against bone cancer more strong.
Radiation therapy and bone cancer are linked terms. As most specialist prefer radiation therapy for bone cancer. In external beam therapy, a beam is directed from outside body to the cancerous internal organ or tissue. This treatment can be given in combination with surgery or chemotherapy.
A linear accelerator or a high energy x-ray machine is used to direct the beam towards the cancerous cells or tumor in external beam therapy. This treatment goes on for six to eight weeks. Radiation dose of few minutes is given daily as five days a week.
Radiation therapy treatment, planning, and delivery are controlled with modern technology of significant advancements in computer hardware and software. It helps a lot to the treatment. Modern techniques are developed to direct radiation dose towards the cancerous cells. Precautions are taken to protect the normal cells.
Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy is very much useful to get up to the difficult to reach tumors like spine, head, neck, prostate, lung, liver, and brain. Modern inventions of radiation therapy and bone cancer are reaching up to new heights.