Radiation Oncology is a branch of medicine that treats cancer. We utilize high energy x-ray beams to target cancer from superficially located skin cancer to cancer deep inside a body or in the brain. These beams shape and control by a computer based on digital image and it's very precise and treats the tumor mass and at the same time tries to avoid the neighboring tissues.
Most of the time, the goal of radiation is to completely eradicate all the cancer cells to cure all the cancer cells while preserving the organs next to this tumor. It's proven that radiation can cause cancer. But unlike a radiation treatment, which is very controlled and targeted, exposure to radiation can cause radiations. I usually explain to patient that their knowledge is like use of a knife— if you use it wrongly, you can cause harm and damage and injury to the patient. So it has to be used properly, similar to radiations. Radiations are well controlled and we can pin point very precisely to the cancer and try to avoid exposure to the neighboring organs. So yes, radiation can cause potentially cancer, which would happen 10-15 years later, but at same time, well controlled radiation has great benefits in terms of getting rid of cancer cells while not causing any problems later on. Radiation is not painful, unless it's very severe or strong dose. Now everybody has an x-ray--they cannot even see the x-ray and there's no feeling, they cannot feel it. There's no side effects per say. It's similar to the x-ray treatment for the tumor. It does not cause pain by itself. If people have pain, usually it's from the cancer. Radiation can cause infertility—if the radiation is exposed to ovaries in females or testes in males, they can affect fertility. Sometimes it could be transient, temporary, or permanent. That's why in radiation treatment, we always avoid any exposure to these organs, the ovaries and the testes. Nowadays, the treatment of cancer is "multi-modality," meaning that we would use everything in combination, sequentially or concurrent, to try to get rid of the cancer once and for all the first time. So surgery, chemo therapy, hormone therapy, and radiation therapy work together, always in conjunction.
How many treatments and the dose and where to treat is based on what we discussed earlier, the evidence based clinical trials and it depends on the organ and the type of cancer, the locations...We decide how many treatment and how much in terms of dose...But in general external beam, for example for breast cancer, it could be five to six weeks, every day, Monday to Friday.
Radiation alone causes very transient side effects. Usually those side effects are from irritations and usually after completion of radiation treatment, it takes about two weeks, gradually the side effect would resolve on its own.
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