Answers to Cancer- Part 4: Radiation for cancer treatment
Answers to Cancer- Part 4: Radiation for cancer treatment
Introduction
- Radiation dose is delivered selectively to cancerous cells to kill cancer.
- Radiation can cause cancer and cure it also.
Advantages
- Huge experience for cancer treatment.
- Works for most of the organs
- Teletherapy is less invasive
- Painless treatment procedure
Disadvantage
- There is a fear element present in public about radiation.
- Healthy Tissues can have exposure to radiation, which may induce secondary tumors in non-cancerous cells.
- Most efficient for localized tumors.
Scope for improvement
- Developing treatment methods for maximum dose delivery to cancerous cells with minimum dose delivery to normal cells.

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