Treatment of Cancer- Radiation may be directed to kill cancerous cells and may scale back or perhaps wipe out the cancer. therefore these ar a number of the advantages of radiation, it seems it plays a giant role in society while not it United Nations agency is aware of what would happen.
There are essentially three main types of cancer treatments; surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Surgery allows doctors to effectively remove tumors from a clear plane. Chemotherapy uses drugs to treat the tumor; but often the drugs affect other healthy cells in the process. Using radiation as a treatment can be either precise or vague. Many health stigmas can come from the vague forms of radiation or conventional radiation therapy. Conventional radiation treats both the unhealthy and healthy cells, therefore exposing healthy cells to harmful radiation (Radiation Oncology, 2011, p.6). When healthy cells are exposed to gamma radiation they are also exposed to ionizing radiation. The ionization can cause “breakage of chemical bonds or oxidization (addition of oxygen atoms)” in a cell; the main impact of this is on a cell’s DNA, if two strands of DNA break it can result in “mutations, chromosome aberrations, ...
...mes, adapts and changes its principles and relationships according to the expectations of the patients and other disciplines of healthcare. No hospital of repute today can function without nuclear medicine.It is essential that nuclear medicine keep pace with the times and formulate and adopt the best set of practices that can exist given the current technology, severity and complexity of disease that exists in today’s times and the resources at hand. The radiation dose that a patient receives, however small, is said to pose a risk according to internationally accepted guidelines. There is even said to be an unproven risk of cancer developing from the exposure to radiation and nuclear medicine. But till the time this risk remains unproven, patients and doctors alike will continue to take this risk as the benefits keep largely outnumbering the possible risks involved.
When Marie Curie discovered radium, she would have no idea of the impact it would have on the world. Radiation is in our everyday lives. It has been found in household items such as granite counter tops, old ceramics, old clocks, old TVs, fertilizers, and microwaves. Certain companies now have to monitor their products because of the possibility of them containing radiation. It has been benefited our culture in ways of making things easier, like cooking our food. Radiation has a big role in the medical field, the most common being an x-ray. X-rays are used to get a view into the body without having to cut it open. Radiation has been used for therapeutic uses. These therapies can be used to kill cancer, reduce tumor size, and ease pain. “hospitals and radiology centers perform approximately 10 million nuclear medicine procedures in the United States each year”. (nrc.gov) Nuclear technology has become a cure for people and has extended many lives. Technology is ever changing and new things are discovered every day and nuclear technology is no exception. Human lifespans are being extended by new technology, who knows how long our lifespans will be 100 years from now.
Radioactivity refers to the spontaneous emission of a stream of electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay. The effect of high dose of radioactivity is perilous, the blood count changes and within hours to days the immune system is shut down and infections start to show. The gastro intestinal tract is affected and the person has to vomit, other internal organs such as the central nervous system (CNS) are also harmed. Each radiation dose no matter how small can cause cancer; the question is how often this occurs if other diseases can also be attributed to it. According to new studies, the effects of low-level radiation include, genome instabilities, mutations of DNA, malformations and increased cell aging.
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Proton radiation is one of the many ways to remedy the deadly disease kenned as Cancer. The other way, however, is conventional radiation. I feel proton radiation is more effective and less hazardous than conventional radiation.
Radiation therapy uses high-energy rays, such as x-rays, to kill the malignant cells and reduce the size of the tumor(s). There are two ways that the body can receive radiation therapy. One way is through external radiation, which is like getting an x-ray done. The second way is internal radiation, in which they put radioactive material right into the tumor. Radiation therapy does not hurt in itself, but the tissue damage from the radiation does cause some side effects (American Cancer Society, Different Types of Treatment). This treatment would also be a good way to reduce melanomas if all the other treatments have failed, most of the time radiation and chemotherapy are taken together.
Radiation has both beneficial and harmful effects. The most detrimental health effect on humans, is the incidence of cancer, which has been studied. Humans are exposed to radiation more than they realize. They are exposed medically with x-rays, just by being outside with cosmic rays, and by accidents such as at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Exposure to radiation is high and more studies are done which improve radiation protection.
Radiation therapy or radiotherapy, is defined as various forms of radiation used to treat cancer and other diseases [1]. Main focus of radiotherapy is to cure cancer, to control the growth of the cancer and to relieve symptoms, such as pain. Radiation therapy works by damaging the DNA within cancer cells and destroying the ability of the cancer cells to reproduce [2]. When these damaged cancer cells die, the body naturally eliminates them. The radiation will affect the normal cells will also affected by radiation, however they are able to repair themselves from the radiation in a way that cancer cells cannot [6]. Sometimes radiation therapy is the only treatment a patient needs, and in other way, it is only one part of a