Radiation Therapy
Radiation therapy
is also known as radiotherapy, radiation oncology and XRT. It is used to treat
cancer, hypothyroid conditions and certain blood conditions. About 40% of
cancer patients go through some kind of radiotherapy. It includes the use of
beams of x-rays or high energy particles (radiation) to destroy the cancer
cells. Radiation therapy works by damaging DNA in tumor cells, destroying their
ability to reproduce.
So instead of the cancer cell fractionation and copy itself to more cancer cells, instead the modified cell is full of errors and gibberish has just been removed by defense organic body recommended s.
Radiotherapy of Cancer:
Most of the kinds
of radiation not specifically attack cancer tissue and thus cause injuries to
regular tissue around the growth. The negative consequences are an important
factor to the success of radiation therapy. However, the proton therapy and
Cyber knife are technologically innovative forms of radiation, which cause
little damage to normal tissues because they focus intensely on growth.
How They Kill Cancer Cells?
Radiation therapy
kills cancer cells by damaging their DNA (substances within cells that carry
genetic information and filling from one generation to another) radiation
therapy can damage DNA directly or loaded contaminants (against free radicals)
in tissues which in turn could make DNA.
Cancer cells
whose DNA is not recoverable stop split or die. When damaged cells die, they
are split and removed by natural processes of the body.
Types of Radiation Therapy:
External beam
radiation therapy
Intensity-intensity
modulated radiation therapy
Proton
radiotherapy
Brachy therapy
External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT):
Effectively
protect the tumor, but the radiation dose reduces to normal tissues not-tumeur.
Radiation intensity modulated (IMRT):
Intensity Modulated
Radiation Therapy (IMRT) is a mode of high-precision radiation therapy using
automated linear accelerators to offer specific amount of radiation to specific
areas within the tumor or a dangerous tumor. IMRT also allows higher doses of
radiation to target regions within the tumor while minimizing the amount of
regular surrounding critical structures.
Proton Beam Radiation Therapy:
Proton Therapy is
a type of compound therapy that uses a beam of protons to irradiate infected
cells, usually in the treatment of cancer. The main advantage of proton therapy
is the ability to search more exactly the amount of radiation compared with
external beam radiotherapy.