Neurology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Oncology, Obesity, Endocrinology, Vascular surgery - Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, description of the disease.

Partial breast irradiation

Most patients with early stage breast cancer have the opportunity to choose instead a more extensive surgery mastectomy sparing sparing surgery - lumpectomy - with the same chances for a favorable outcome. If removal is not performed lumpectomy entire affected breast cancer, but only the area of where the tumor, with the capture of normal breast tissue. After ... Read more »

Radiation therapy after lumpectomy

Radiation therapy can be given as in the earliest stages of cancer - stage 0 or ductal carcinoma in situ, and in later stages of cancer - III and IV, after a lumpectomy or mastectomy.

Radiation therapy after mastectomy

During the removal of the breast can not excise all the breast tissue, especially immediately adjacent to the skin and run along the pectoral muscles. In most cases, if after such an operation is a little glandular tissue, she is developing normally. However, in the remaining tissue may be some cancer cells that may be the cause of recurrence of breast ... Read more »

When radiation therapy is not indicated

Radiation therapy is not indicated in the following cases:

You have already received a course of radiation therapy in some other areas of the body

The choice of treatment regimen of radiation therapy

The sequence of a course of radiation therapy depends on the individual situation. Radiation therapy can be given immediately after surgery or after other treatments.

Increasing the dose of radiation during radiation therapy

Even if the planning of radiation therapy go smoothly and you're ready to start treatment, the first day of exposure you can still feel some discomfort.

The plan of treatment by radiotherapy

Keep in mind that how you treat yourself to a treatment procedure affects the results, and more on how you carry it. You should not just passively to come every day and go to irradiation. Psychologically necessary to unite with your doctor to fight the tumor. So ask your doctor anything that you would like to learn more about radiation therapy. Reme ... Read more »