Radiotherapy, this is a treatment that is currently the best of all. Not only for cancer, but for other tumor diseases. Although it is more efficient for dealing with cancer. This disease that is dangerous, is that several cancer cells are going to move to a random point in our body, and when they reach the point, they will divide producing more cells, and at the same time they will generate tumors. These tumors are extremely dangerous, in addition to their growth is not slow, it is uncontrolled. To make matters worse, you don’t know when you’ll have cancer, and if you really do. It must be in a phase from which it can be detectable. This is why if you are a person whose family offspring had cancer, you should be tested to deal with the disease. You can also get cancer even if no one in your family had it. Since you can have it according to the healthy life you are leading. If you want to know more about this popular and amazing treatment. Well, do not worry, because in this article you will know about this specific topic. But before starting, we invite you to read from this article that has some relationship with what you are about to read “How to cure Cancer with a Microbot”
What is it?
Radiation therapy, or better known as radiation therapy. It is a treatment for cancer that will use high doses of radiation so that they can reach cancer cells to damage them and cause death. As for the tumors, they will be reduced, controlling the way in which they will grow or better yet stop their growth completely. If it is in low doses, X-rays will be used, the same ones that are used in order to see inside our body. As well as the well-known x-rays to be able to see our fractured bones and teeth.
It was already explained above, but to know in more depth. It is that the radiation waves will damage the DNA especially to cancer cells, once they are damaged, they will not have the ability to divide, being their only option to die. The good thing is that those cells cannot recover, and when they die, in a while they will decompose being the work of our body and system to dispose of them. No, it’s not that the treatment destroys the cells all at once, it can be done but the body won’t be able to withstand the incredibly high levels of radiation that will be used. So, it will take days and many sessions to do the process slowly but surely. Apart from that radiotherapy also damages our healthy cells. Although they can be regenerated so that a large majority is saved. Radiation therapy is given to a specific area of the body, an area of which cancer cells have been confirmed.
Types of radiation therapy
Currently there are only 2 types of radiotherapy, external and internal. You can’t choose which one you’re going to want, it’s actually the doctor you’re going to decide from. And it will depend on what type of cancer the patient has, how are the sizes of the tumors. Their location, how close the tumors are to radiation-sensitive tissues, such as their general health and medical history, and extra factors such as the patient’s age and had other medical conditions
External
It works through a machine, which focuses the radiation on the target in question. The machine is somewhat noisy and large, although it does not touch it, but it moves around it in order to send radiation from different directions in order to attack tumors. This treatment applies to a specific area of the body, so if you have lung cancer, then you will receive radiation to your chest only.
Internal
This treatment is based on the fact that the source of the radiation is going to be put inside the body, it can become solid or liquid. Solid therapy is called brachytherapy, here slats, seeds or capsules will be used. Of which they have a radiation source, which is placed in or near the body of the tumor. Like the external one, this applies to the specific area of the body that contains cancer. The liquid is called systemic. This starts from the blood and goes to tissues throughout the body from which it will locate and destroy cancer cells. This procedure needs to be given through a vein, mouth, injection, or intravenous line. By doing this method, body fluids will emit radiation for some time. If you liked reading this article, we invite you to read about this other one that has some relationship with what you just read “What are the symptoms of cancer” Normal