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- Title
Radiotherapeutic treatment of brain tumours.
- Authors
Coliță, Andrei; Coraci, Ileana; Vasilica, Cătălina
- Abstract
Radiotherapy represents the use of ionizing radiation to kill cancer cells and stop their growth and division. Brain tumours occur when cells begin to uncontrollably multiply and move or invade nearby tissues. Usually, for radiotherapy of the full brain or of larger areas, a number of external radiotherapy sessions will be prescribed for about 1 or 2 weeks. Hyperfractionation is a form of radiotherapy applied in doses much lower than usual, two or three times a day instead of once a day. The treatment is performed with an external irradiation device (linear accelerator, cobalt therapy). Once the treatment completed, the patient will have to periodically perform a series of tests for early tracing of a possible relapse of the disease.
- Subjects
RADIOTHERAPY; BRAIN tumor treatment
- Publication
Oncolog-Hematolog, 2017, Issue 39, p68
- ISSN
2066-8716
- Publication type
Abstract