Radiation therapy(放疗小科普英语版).pptxVIP

Radiation therapy. PanyanlingWhat is it?What is the meaning of “Radiation therapy”It is the /wiki/Medicinemedical use of /wiki/Ionizing_radiationionizing radiation as part of /wiki/Oncologytumour/wiki/Oncology treatment to control /wiki/Malignantmalignant /wiki/Cell_(biology)cells .PS:Do not confuse it with /wiki/Radiologyradiology, which is the use of radiation in /wiki/Medical_imagingmedical imaging and /wiki/Medical_diagnosisdiagnosis.When do we use it?It is used as therapeutic treatment :where the therapy has survival benefit and it can be curative. or as palliative treatment :where cure is not possible and the aim is for local disease control or symptomatic relief.Radiotherapy also has several applications in non-malignant conditions, such as Scar hyperplasia 、hypophysoma , TBI,etc,but the use of radiotherapy in non-malignant conditions is limited partly by worries about the risk of radiation-induced cancers.Radiotherapy can be used alone, and it is also common to combine radiotherapy with /wiki/Surgerysurgery, /wiki/Chemotherapychemotherapy, /wiki/Hormonal_therapy_(oncology)hormone therapy, /wiki/ImmunotherapyImmunotherapy or some mixture of the four. How does radiation therapy kill cancer cells? Radiation therapy kills cells by damaging their DNA. Cancer cells are more sensitive than normal cells ,so that the cancers are killed but the normal tissue can survive.The types of radiation therapyConventional external beam radiotherapy.Stereotactic Radiation3-Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy (3DCRT)Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)Particle Therapyinternal radiotherapyRadioisotope Therapy (RIT)How to realize the Radiation Therapy?We take the most popular type 3DCRT as example, there are several steps:1.Fix:we need some special tools to help keep the body from moving so that the patient is in the exact same position for each treatment.2. simulate:During simulation, detailed imaging scans show the location of a patient’s tumor and the normal areas aroun