Radiation therapy causes damage to this protective mucosal ... There are numerous reasons why a feeding tube may need to be ...

Radiation therapy, or “radiation,” kills these cells ... Through a needle or a tube (port) directly into a blood vessel Oral: From a pill or capsule that you swallow Injection: Through a ...

Some patients even need to have a tracheostomy, in which a tube is inserted into the neck to aid breathing. Sabrina’s research made her worry that such extreme radiation therapy could severely ...

The ionising effect of radiation is used in the Geiger-Muller (GM) tube as a means of detecting the radiation. The GM tube is a hollow cylinder filled with a gas at low pressure. The tube has a ...

Following radical prostatectomy, success of adjuvant and salvage radiation therapy (RT ... samples for CTC analysis were drawn into CellSave tubes (Janssen, Raritan, NJ, USA) and analyzed within ...

Radiation therapy is a painless short-duration treatment ... This could likely be due to tumour cells in the lungs pressing on the breathing tubes. This makes the patient bed-bound and dependent ...

This protein binds to DNA and helps prevent it from breaking — a key cause of side effects in radiation therapy. In a study published February 26 in Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers ...

Nuclear medicine therapy uses radiopharmaceuticals targeting specific tumours, such as thyroid, lymphomas or bone metastases, delivering radiation to tumorous lesions as part of a therapeutic strategy ...

In addition, an estimated 6.2 million courses of radiation therapy treatment are performed each year. New medical radiation technology and procedures continue to be developed. “The conference will ...