0 the use of controlled amounts of radiation (= a form of energy) aimed at a particular part of the body, to treat disease: --
However, delaying reconstruction with an implant until after radiation therapy is completed may be impossible, or at least more difficult.
Two patients from the original sample of 25 were not referred for radiation therapy.
He (she) is in pain, and he (she) will receive radiation therapy.
Reactivation may be spontaneous, induced by stress, fever, radiation therapy or immunosuppression.
Current conventional antineoplastic therapy (surgery, radiation therapy and multi-agent chemotherapy) can put most children with high-risk neuroblastoma into remission.
Large-scale clinical trials have shown that breast conservation therapy, involving lumpectomy and radiation therapy, results in survival rates equivalent to those seen with mastectomy.
This is typically the case in the insetting of delayed reconstruction after mastectomy and postoperative radiation therapy.
Although radiation therapy does not offer significant morbidity, older women often complain of the inconvenience associated with daily treatments.
