「radiation therapy“Everyone may have heard it a lot, but what exactly is “radiated”?
Radiation therapy, commonly known as “electrotherapy“In fact, it is not electricity, but radiation. Traditionally, high-energy X-rays are used for treatment, which is dozens of times higher than the X-rays we usually use for lungs.tumorIrradiation, which kills tumor cells, reduces the size of the patient’s tumor, and even has the opportunity to completely remove it, allowing the patient to recover.
The above is the basic principle of radiation therapy, and now there are many rays and practical methods of operation. For example, there is one called “brachytherapy”, which is to place radioactive substances next to the tumor and perform radiation therapy at a very close distance. Cervical cancer is often used.
In general people’s cognition, radiation therapy is mainly used forcancerIn fact, it is not necessarily used for serious diseases, because in addition to treating cancer and malignant tumors, radiation therapy is sometimes used in some benign conditions. For example, there is a special constitution that is prone to form a scar called “crab foot swollen” because of small wounds. People with this constitution have the opportunity to form “crab foot swollen” regardless of the wounds caused by injections, ear piercing, or incisions. And the scars can get bigger and bigger, you can consider surgery to remove the “crab foot swelling”, and then do radiotherapy to reduce the chance of the “crab foot swelling” recurrence.
Of course, the radiation dose used to treat “crab foot swelling” will be lower than that used to treat cancer in general. In fact, the amount of radiation used in radiation therapy varies from case to case.
