Cancer is a serious cancer disease that doctors around the world are looking for a cure for. The principle of treatment of oncology with radiation is widely used because it adversely affects living cells. For therapeutic purposes, radiation is used only purposefully, so it does not have such a devastating effect on healthy cells. In modern medical practice, two types of radiation exposure are most often used: brachytherapy and external exposure.
Remote Cancer
Before irradiation, an MRI or CT scan of the affected organ is required, so that the irradiation of the tumor is targeted. Special programs allow you to recreate a three-dimensional image of the tumor, which allows you to send radiation rays directly to the cancerous formation. Modulated radiation therapy is a unique opportunity to direct intensive doses of radiation directly to a sore spot and reduce the radiation dose when directing rays to healthy tissues. Proton radiation allows you to even better allows you to simulate the strength of radiation, delivering it to the affected organ, but this method is not available in all clinics. Regardless of the type of radiation therapy, remote radiation treatment for cancer is carried out every day except weekends for seven to eight weeks on an outpatient basis.
Brachytherapy
Remote radiation therapy is an excellent tool in some localizations. It practically does not give complications, but damage to neighboring organ tissues in some diseases, for example, with prostatitis, can be quite high. Thus, radiation cystitis and proctitis are manifested, as well as radiation ulcers. Based on the above facts, oncologists have developed a fundamentally new method that makes irradiation with cancer minimally safe for neighboring organs and tissues. The principle of brachytherapy is based on exposure to radiation rays not from the outside, but from the inside of the tumor. Consider prostate cancer as an example of how brachytherapy affects a tumor. Using a special needle, grains of radioactive iodine are introduced into the prostate, whose half-life is 60 days. In this case, irradiation of the affected organ occurs from within, this allows irradiation in cancer, this avoids the additional irradiation of healthy tissues and organs.
What is the use of radiation ?
Radiation irradiation of the blood contributes to the destruction of living cells, while cancer cells die much faster than healthy ones. In addition, diseased cells do not have the ability to recover, unlike healthy ones. Radiation exposure avoids the spread of cancer cells and prevents the occurrence of metastases. With its help, it is possible to reduce the pain symptom, reduce the risk of bleeding, improve breathing, reduce the risk of bone fractures (with bone cancer), and reduce the compression that the tumor exerts on the spinal cord and brain. The tactics of treating a cancerous tumor will mainly depend on the clinical stage of the neoplasm, on the general condition of the patient and on his age. Basically, combination therapy is used to cure, in which, after surgical treatment, radiation or chemotherapy is used.
What is VLOK?
Currently, VLOK is used quite often for the treatment of tumors - intravenous laser irradiation of blood, this is a method of photobiological effect on blood cells. It allows maximum irradiation of all blood cells with a beam of red light. The energy of this light activates the enzyme and immune metabolism in each blood cell, while all the basic cellular functions are activated.
Radiation exposure in cancer gives an excellent effect, this should be known to every patient with this serious diagnosis.