Current Issue : October-December Volume : 2022 Issue Number : 4 Articles : 1 Articles
In the past few years, a lot of progress has been made in understanding how cancer might develop and how to treat it. Cancer is still hard to treat in the 21st century, though, because the number of people who get it is going up. Radiation therapy, surgery, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and hormonal therapy are all ways to treat cancer. Radiation therapy is still an important part of treating cancer. About half of all cancer patients get radiation therapy at some point during their illness and it makes up about 40% of treatments that cure cancer. The main goal of radiation therapy is to stop cancer cells from dividing and making more cancer cells. In the UK, 2011 has been named the year of radiation therapy to mark a century of progress since Marie Curie won her second Nobel Prize for her work on radium. Over the last 100 years, there have been constant improvements in how radiation is used to treat cancer and scientists have learned more about how cancer cells react to radiation. These improvements will help cancer patients live longer and have fewer side effects from treatment. In this review, we converse about radiation therapy's basic ideas, how it is used and how it has changed over time, as well as its biological effects....
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