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Radiation therapy or radiotherapy, often abbreviated RT, RTx, or XRT, is therapy using ionizing radiation, generally as part of cancer treatment to control or kill malignant cells. Radiation therapy may be curative in a number of types of cancer if they are localized to one area of the body. It may also be used as part of adjuvant therapy, to prevent tumor recurrence after surgery to remove a primary malignant tumor (for example, early stages of breast cancer). Radiation therapy is synergistic with chemotherapy, and has been used before, during, and after chemotherapy in susceptible cancers. The subspecialty of oncology that focuses on radiotherapy is called radiation oncology.
Radiation therapy is commonly applied to the cancerous tumor because of its ability to control cell growth. Ionizing radiation works by damaging the DNA of cancerous tissue leading to cellular death. To spare normal tissues (such as skin or organs which radiation must pass through to treat the tumor), shaped radiation beams are aimed from several angles of exposure to intersect at the tumor, providing a much larger absorbed dose there than in the surrounding, healthy tissue. Besides the tumour itself, the radiation fields may also include the draining lymph nodes if they are clinically or radiologically involved with tumor, or if there is thought to be a risk of subclinical malignant spread. It is necessary to include a margin of normal tissue around the tumor to allow for uncertainties in daily set-up and internal tumor motion. These uncertainties can be caused by internal movement (for example, respiration and bladder filling) and movement of external skin marks relative to the tumor position.
My Assistant Chief Radiation Therapist walks us through the steps of what Radiation Therapy is and how patients are prepared for their treatments.
Radiation therapist salary & job details: Radiation therapists administer radiation therapy to patients, as prescribed by a radiologist. They also perform many other important duties, such as operating specialized machines. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (in 2014), the average salary was $83,710 and the average hourly wage was $40.25 per hour. In this article/video, you'll learn the job duties of a radiation therapist, the average salary for all 50 states, the education requirements, and the job likes and dislikes. Topics covered in video: --Radiation therapist job duties ("a day in the life of a radiation therapist). --Radiation therapist education requirements ("how to become a radiation therapist"), including the types of radiation therapist programs available. --Radiati...
This educational video, highlights the important steps in the radiation treatment process. It shows how the treatment is planned and delivered and describes the role of the patient and their health care team. To learn more http://www.radonc.jhmi.edu/ or http://www.hopkinskimmelcancercenter.org
What to Expect: Radiation Therapy A Patient Education Video Series: 7 of 7 Radiation Therapy 101 Common questions: How does radiation work? How does it kill the cancer cells but not the healthy cells? This module provides a short but useful overview of how radiation is used in the treatment of cancer. For more information on the Accelerated Education Program, visit us at http://www.aepeducation.ca Follow us at https://twitter.com/AEPcme
Radiation Therapy For Breast Cancer, learn breast cancer and symptoms and take necessary action before the dead end comes.
Interested in a career as a Radiation Therapist? Have a look at what the profession involves; plus the education to get there and the opportunities once you graduate.
Here's a video of the full radiation therapy procedure that I'm currently receiving at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The video also shows (at the end) the control room and basement of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Care Center that's kinda become like a second home to me over the past few weeks. This is treatment #25 of 33 total that I'll receive.
Learn what to expect during radiation treatment for lung cancer with this patient education video featuring Lowell General Hospital. Video courtesy of American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).
What side effects can a cancer patient expect from radiation treatment? Dr. David Mattson, Director of Roswell Park's Breast Radiation Oncology Program, describes some of the common side effects that may occur and how the Roswell Park team works to mitigate these effects as much as possible.
http://www.sunnybrook.ca // Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy diagnosed in men in North America. Learn about radiation therapy and what to expect.
Read your free e-book: http://copydl.space/mebk/50/en/B015PNEN9U/book Use the Gpu Successfully in Your Radiotherapy Practicewith its high processing power, cost-effectiveness, and easy deployment, access, and maintenance, the graphics processing unit (gpu) has increasingly been used to tackle problems in the medical physics field, ranging from computed tomography reconstruction to Monte Carlo radiation transport simulation. Graphics Processing Unit-based High Performance Computing in Radiation Therapy collects state-of-the-art research on Gpu computing and its applications to medical physics problems in radiation therapy.tackle Problems in Medical Imaging and Radiotherapythe book first offers an introduction to the Gpu technology and its current applications in radiotherapy. Most of the re...
Read your free e-book: http://copydl.space/mebk/50/en/B00177T5WE/book Radiation Oncology: A Physicist's-eye View was written for both physicists and medical oncologists with the aim of helping them approach the use of radiation in the treatment of cancer with understanding, confidence, and imagination. The book will let practitioners in one field understand the problems of, and find solutions for, practitioners in the other. It will help them to know 'why' certain approaches are fruitful while, at the same time, encouraging them to ask the question 'why not?' in the face of assertions that some proposal of theirs is impractical, unreasonable, or impossible. Unlike a textbook, formal and complete developments of the topics are not among the goals. Instead, the reader will develop a foundati...
Read your free e-book: http://copydl.space/mebk/50/en/B00RZJVAIK/book This evidence-based guide to the current management of cancer cases at all head and neck sites will assist in the appropriate selection and delineation of tumor volumes/fields for intensity-modulated radiation therapy (imrt), including volumetric modulated arc therapy (vmat). Each tumor site-related chapter presents, from the perspective of an academic expert, several actual cases at different stages in order to clarify specific clinical concepts. The coverage includes case presentation, a case-related literature review, patient preparation, simulation, contouring, treatment planning, treatment delivery, and follow-up. The text is accompanied by illustrations ranging from slice-by-slice delineations on planning Ct images...
"Proton therapy is an advanced form of radiation therapy that uses high-energy proton beam rather than conventional radiotherapy to irradiate a tumor. The unprecedented demand of proton therapy for the treatment of cancer has set the stage for the market to move ahead at a rapid pace. The main advantage of proton therapy is that while destroying the target malignant cells, it causes minimal damage to the surrounding cells. Proton therapy uses the ionization technique to inhibit cell proliferation. Protons move slowly through the body and interact with electrons and discharge energy. Purchase a copy of this “Proton Therapy Market Outlook - Global Analysis” research report @ http://www.marketreportsonline.com/contacts/purchase.php?name=504243.
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Read your free e-book: http://hotaudiobook.com/mebk/50/en/B008C4PQZA/book Facts101 is your complete guide to Principles and Practice of Radiation Therapy. In this book, you will learn topics such as Principles of Pathology,, Overview of Radiobiology,, Detection and Diagnosis,, and Medical Imaging, plus much more. With key features such as key terms, people and places, Facts101 gives you all the information you need to prepare for your next exam. Our practice tests are specific to the textbook and we have designed tools to make the most of your limited study time.
Introduction to Radiation Therapy of the Head & Neck: http://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=-dWm40P6elM&video;_referrer=watch&ns;=1 0:00:00.500,0:00:03.000 Welcome to the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. 0:00:03.000,0:00:05.500 This video is an introduction to radiation therapy treatment 0:00:05.500,0:00:07.300 to the head and neck area. 0:00:07.300,0:00:09.500 We hope to give you a better idea of what it will be like 0:00:09.500,0:00:11.500 to have radiation treatment and explain some of the ways 0:00:11.500,0:00:16.000 we can work together to help you get through your treatment successfully. 0:00:18.500,0:00:21.500 In the most general sense, radiation is any sort of energy 0:00:21.500,0:00:27.000 such as light, heat, or sound. 0:00:28.500,0:00:...
James J. Urbanic, MD, a radiation oncologist, and Carnell J. Hampton, PhD, a physicist at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest Baptist Health, use the most advanced linear accelerator to treat lung cancer. The Elekta Axesse™ image guided linear accelerator offers highly-accurate targeting of tumors and lesions virtually anywhere in the body. Typically requiring only one to five treatments, it achieves excellent results in fewer treatments than required by standard radiotherapy. Radiation therapy with these techniques is a treatment modality for a wide range of cancers including lung, prostate, head and neck, esophageal, spinal cord, pancreatic, liver metastases, recurrent gynecologic cancers, bone metastasis and adrenal cancer. Learn more about RADIATION ONCOLOGY at Wake For...
Natural tips for skin-care during and after radiation treatment. This is a 'one out of 3' video on how to support yourself naturally during radiation :) By Wieteke Koolhof (Design4awareness) and Peter Gersten. Peter, at age 72, underwent a major change in lifestyle to support his healing from neck and throat cancer as well as the side effects of the radiation treatments. In this video we share what we learned about healing the mouth and throat using only natural solutions. The information in this video is based on our personal experiences. Neither of us have any degrees in medicine and we recommend you always make your own decisions based on your own research, experiences, and common sense. We suggest you compare all options (both popular and alternative) and choose that which resonates...
Radiation Therapy destroys Health Radiotherapy is the most dangerous treatment of cancer and medicine . Nevertheless millions of cancer patients are exposed to it Most physicians are not aware of the radiation threat since medical schools do not teach radiobiology and radiation pathology. Cancer therapy has many side effects, which I regard as treatment induced diseases. Generally when treatment is ove,r organism recovers. On the other hand, organism does not fully recover from radiotherapy. While organism is fully equipped to recover from chemotherapy induced disease, it lacks means to recover from radiotherapy. Each radiation quantum causes irreversible damage which accumulates with time. It gradually demolishes health and raises the threat of death. Tissues are composed of pr...
Slides for this presentation are available on Dana-Farber's Slideshare page: http://www.slideshare.net/DanaFarber/radiation-therapy-in-lymphoma-andrea-k-ng-md For more information on Dana-Farber's Adult Lymphoma Program, visit this website: http://www.dana-farber.org/Adult-Care/Treatment-and-Support/Treatment-Centers-and-Clinical-Services/Hematologic-Oncology-Treatment-Center/Adult-Lymphoma-Program.aspx Andrea K. Ng, MD, of Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center Department of Radiation Oncology, gives an overview of the different types of radiation therapy, the side effects, and how it is used in the treatment of lymphoma. This presentation was given at the 2013 Lymphoma Research Foundation North American Forum on Sept. 29, 2013. (http://www.lymphoma.org)
UCLA radiation oncologist Tania Kaprealian, MD, discusses various radiation therapy modalities used to treat brain tumors, including treatment planning and side effects. Learn more about #UCLAMDChats at http://uclahealth.org/uclamdchat
A talk from Radiation Therapy at the Undergraduate Open Day, December 2012, Trinity College Dublin. http://www.tcd.ie/courses
CONTENT DESCRIPTION 0:01 Introduction 3:00 Shared decision-making 3:45 Risk assessment 7:40 General treatment options 8:47 Survival and prostate cancer 9:29 Radiation treatment options 14:47 Radiation therapy explained and video 21:07 Radiation side effects 25:44 Prostate brachytherapy 34:41 PSA monitoring after treatment 38:40 HDR monotherapy Do you think this video would be helpful to other patients? Did you find this information helpful? Please leave a comment below because it is a great way to help someone else making their decision and for Stanford to add content that matters to you. For more information about the HDR monotherapy clinical trial see: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02346253?term=brachytherapy+monotherapy&rank;=4 For another video about the benefits of Brachy...