Statistically speaking, nowadays most of the people are suffering from cancer. This usually debilitate the effected person and sometimes at worst cases leads to death. It is a fact that the causes of cancer are often unknown. To eliminate cancer, radiation treatment has been found effective.
Cancer radiation therapy targets the cancer cells as to destroy them. It damages the ability of cancer cells to divide and grow. These days there are several advance methods of radiation therapy has developed such as proton beam therapy, radio immuno therapy and stereo tactic radio surgery.
Benefits of radiation therapy
- Destroys cancer cells – Ionizing radiation of specific doses are targeted on cancer cells. Doctors completely focus the radiation on tumor cells but besides this the normal cells in the surrounding gets little affected. There are some cancer cells which are resistant to radiation thus to destroy them radiation is combined with other treatments. It works perfectly on leukemia, lymphomas and small tumors.
- Painless: In other treatment patients have to undergo a painful procedure. But in cancer radiation therapy beams are focused on targeted areas penetrating the skin and damaging the cancer cells.
- Normal cells get time to recover: When radiation is given, along with cancer cells normal cells are also little bit damaged. But this therapy is given in fraction of time so the normal cells get chance to repair themselves and recover. Whereas cancer cells lack this recovery frame so remain damaged.
Nowadays there are several cancer treatment centers available providing effective treatment to the patients to overcome cancer and lead a happy life
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