Radiology and Radiation Therapy
Radiation treatment or radiotherapy, commonly abbreviated RT, RTx. This is a treatment utilizing ionizing radiation, by and large as a part of cancer treatment to control or kill harmful cells and typically conveyed by a linear accelerator. Radiation treatment might be curative in various types of cancer if they are confined to one area of the body. It might likewise be utilized as a major aspect of adjuvant therapy, to prevent tumor repetition after surgery to remove a primary harmful tumor (for example, beginning periods of breast cancer). The subspecialty of oncology worried about radiotherapy is called radiation oncology.
- External beam radiation treatment
- Contact x-beam brachytherapy
- Brachytherapy (sealed source radiotherapy)
- Intraoperative radiotherapy