Understanding the Various Techniques of Radiotherapy
Radiation therapy or also known as radiotherapy is regularly used to treat cancer. Currently, along with surgery and chemotherapy, radiotherapy is a standard treatment protocol for various types of cancer. Though, compared to other types of treatment modalities such as surgery and chemotherapy, radiotherapy has the least amount of knowledge and understanding by a majority of the public. Basically, there are four variations or types of radiotherapy which are explained below. First of all is the conventional and conformal therapy, this procedure is usually administered to simple and basic cancer cases. This technique uses single or double beam directions to irradiate a specific target area without the use of intricate shielding areas of the body that has not been affected by the cancer such as the spine or brain. The basic principal for this procedure is applying multiple radiation beam directions to focus as close as possible towards the target [...]