NOUN
- (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
How To Use radiation therapy In A Sentence
- Due to lack of diagnostic information, the patient received cancer therapy that included a lumpectomy, lymph node dissection, and radiation therapy.
- The treatment of choice is early surgical removal with intensive chemotherapy and radiation therapy to ablate residual microscopic disease.
- Almost 56 percent of patients who underwent the therapy, called stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), were still alive three years after their treatment, according to preliminary findings from a study published in the March 17 issue of the Medlogs - Recent stories
- The chemotherapy and radiation therapy that a child undergoes has many harsh side effects.
- For chronic inflammation of bronchi, neurasthenia , low sexual function , weakness, low cell count after radiation therapy.
- Researchers at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, have suggested that during radiation therapy treatments prostate-specific dietary supplements should not be taken as they increase the radiosensitivity of normal prostate cell lines, leading to normal tissue complications. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
- We used a combined regimen of injection treatment and radiation therapy.
- A surgeon can remove as much of the brain tumor as is safe and prescribe chemo- and radiation therapy, but the cancer will grow back.
- A PET Scan showed globally decreased radiotracer uptake within the brain, bilaterally, consistent with involutional change and prior radiation therapy.
- Complications of radiation therapy include anal ulcers, anal stenosis and necrosis.