Informative Essay On Radiotherapy

I am for Radiation in the form of medicine because it has helped a lot of hospitals to cure patients. Radiotherapy, or Radiation therapy, is one of the most common treatment for cancer. They also use x-rays, gamma rays, electrons beams, and protons to weaken or destroy the cancer cells. People normally use Radiotherapy because it has been known to be the most effective in killing the cancer cells. There are other methods to kill cancer but Radiotherapy is the most common procedure. Radiotherapy can be used in surgery or chemotherapy. There is a drug that makes the cancer cells sensitive to the radiation and helps kill the cancer cells better. It is called radiosensitizers and it also uses high energy waves to kill tumor cells without damaging any of the healthy cells. Radiation treatments can come from outside of the body or inside the body near the cancer cells. Patients that get Radiotherapy inside the body normally get the treatment called Brachytherapy. It directly targets the cancer instead of the healthy organs surrounding the cancer cells. Half of the patients that have cancer get some kind of radiation therapy because it is effective and helps cure or slow the process.

External radiation is used to treat large areas of the body and can treat more than one area at a time. Internal radiation or Brachytherapy is a seed implant that is placed it into the person body to the affected area. They place it there permanently or temporarily and this radiation gives off high doses to the cancerous area it slowly releases the radiation over month and within a year it decays this type of radiation therapy is often used in breast cancer, lung, prostate, neck and head, perianal, cervical, ovarian,