0 the use of controlled amounts of radiation (= a form of energy) aimed at a particular part of the body, to treat disease:
Previously doctors have avoided radiation therapy for very young children.
Unlike conventional radiation therapy, which attacks tumours from the outside, this new system releases a cascade of atomic fragments inside cancer cells.
He had had Hodgkins disease three years earlier, but had been successfully treated with radiation therapy alone.
To compare acute and late toxicities between the radiation therapy regimens.
Protons to replace photons in external beam radiation therapy?
Five years prior to this date, the patient's left breast carcinoma had been treated with lumpectomy, axillary node dissection, and radiation therapy.
They think that radiation therapy is going to make them very ill, and that they are going to be miserable.
Needless to say, careful follow-up during and after the radiation therapy remains of paramount importance in this specific population of patients.
