It is estimated that half of the US' 1.2M invasive cancer cases diagnosed in 2022 received radiation therapy in their treatment program. … 展开

Radiation therapy is used to treat early stage Dupuytren's disease and Ledderhose disease. When Dupuytren's disease is at the nodules and cords stage or fingers are at a minimal deformation stage of less than 10 degrees, then radiation therapy is used … 展开

Historically, the three main divisions of radiation therapy are:
• external beam radiation therapy (EBRT or XRT) or teletherapy;
• brachytherapy or sealed source radiation therapy; and
• systemic … 展开

• Beam spoiler
• Cancer and nausea
• Fast neutron therapy
• Neutron capture therapy of cancer
• Particle beam 展开

Radiation therapy (RT) is in itself painless. Many low-dose palliative treatments (for example, radiation therapy to bony metastases) … 展开

Mechanism of action
Radiation therapy works by damaging the DNA of cancer cells and can cause them to undergo 展开

Medicine has used radiation therapy as a treatment for cancer for more than 100 years, with its earliest roots traced from the discovery of X-rays in 1895 by Wilhelm Röntgen. 展开