Radiation therapy is the use of high energy, penetrating radiation (x rays, gamma rays, proton rays, and neutron rays) to kill cancer cells. The primary purpose of radiation therapy is to eliminate or shrink localized cancers (as opposed to cancers...

Since the development of X-ray technology, medical professionals have embraced the concept of radiation as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool. This nuclear science, called radiotherapy, utilizes radioactive particles and elements for diagnosis and...

Radioactive implants are devices that are placed directly within cancerous tissue or tumors, in order to deliver radiation therapy intended to kill cancerous cells. With the use of radioactive implants, the tumor is subjected to radioactive activity...

The application of controlled RADIATION for treating disease. It is used especially in the treatment of certain types of...

Radiation therapy (or radiotherapy) is the medical use of ionizing radiation as part of cancer treatment to control malignant cells (not to be confused with radiology, the use of radiation in medical imaging and diagnosis). Radiotherapy may be used for...

Radiation therapy (RT) is an important modality in the treatment of a wide variety of neoplasms. The complications associated with radiation therapy to the skeletal system include alterations in bone growth, radiation osteitis with secondary stress fractures, osteonecrosis, infection as well as radiation-induced sarcoma....

Radiation therapy for arthritic joints Gold compounds and the antibiotic penicillamine are traditional treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, the joint-destroying disease in which white blood cells and their immune system products invade human joints and cause inflammation. Stanford University researchers now report that...

   Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in pregnant women. Frequently, patients are in their thirties; it has been estimated that the incidence of this disease will increase in the next few years because of women choosing to have children at a...

   Located deep in the pelvis, one at each side of the uterus, the ovaries are a pair of organs in the female reproductive system. Each ovary is about the size and shape of an almond; they produce eggs and female hormones, estrogen and progesterone....

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