「radiotherapy“Everyone may have heard it a lot, but what exactly” radiates “?
Radiation therapy, commonly known as “electrotherapy“In fact, it’s not electricity, but radiation. Traditionally, high-energy X-rays are used for treatment, which are dozens of times higher than the X-rays we usually use for the lungs.cancerIrradiation, which kills cancer cells, reduces the size of the patient’s tumor and even has the opportunity to remove it completely, allowing the patient to recover.
The above is the basic principle of radiation therapy, and there are many rays and operative methods currently used. For example, there is one called “brachytherapy”, which consists of placing radioactive substances close to the tumor and performing radiation therapy at a very close range. Cervical cancer is often used.
In the general cognition of people, radiation therapy is mainly usedcancerIn fact, it is not necessarily used for serious diseases, because in addition to treating cancer and malignant tumors, radiotherapy is sometimes used in some benign conditions. For example, there is a special constitution, which tends to form a scar called “crab foot swelling” due to small wounds. People with this type of constitution have the opportunity to form a “crab foot swelling” regardless of injuries from injections, ear piercings, or surgery. And the scars can get bigger and bigger, you may want to consider surgery to remove the “crab foot swelling” and then perform radiation therapy to reduce the chance of the “crab foot swelling” returning.
Of course, the radiation dose used to treat “crab foot swelling” will be less than that used to treat cancer in general. In fact, the amount of radiation used in radiotherapy varies from case to case.
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