He was treated with radiation therapy, state of the art radiation therapy, but it didn't help.

She is treated with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation.

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Radiotherapy was widely used to combat cancer.

Many patients like that favor radiation therapy.

I danced through chemo and radiation cycles, much to the dismay of my oncologist.

Assessing the global trend in diagnostic x ray examinations, and use of radiopharmaceuticals, and radio therapy

It might be things like, don't eat that day, or give them a little chemotherapy, maybe a little radiation.

An occupational therapist?

Furthermore, treatment options are limited primarily to surgery and radiotherapy, owing to the lack of access to chemotherapeutic resources. Unfortunately, even the current radiotherapy units available rely on equipment that is between 30 and 40 years old.

Over the last 100 years, it has become an essential tool for diagnosis and therapy, but there remains a far from equitable distribution of medical radiation services between different countries.

L'd love to see the mesmerizer.

I danced between chemo and radiation cycles and badgered him to fit it to my performing dance schedule.

God is the greatest healer of all.

Access to life saving radiotherapy is limited or non existent in many areas.

A mesmerizer isn't a hypnotist. He makes the sun rise.

With regard to the treatment of cancer, it was not possible to acquire spare parts or radiation sources for two automatic afterloading machines for the treatment of gynaecological tumours (brachytherapy equipment), purchased from the Canadian firm MSD Nordion, since that company had sold the brand for this equipment to the United States firm Varian.

19. Medical irradiation is the largest source of man made exposure of the population.

If we eliminate cancer the way we're trying to do now, with chemotherapy and radiation, we're bombarding the body or the cancer with toxins, or with radiation, trying to kill it.

So now you're faced with telling your patient, first of all, that they may need another surgery, or that they need additional therapy such as radiation or chemotherapy.

It has to be noted that the International Atomic Energy Agency has nominated the Latvian Cancer Centre as an institution that is of European importance in terms of regional competence in the area of radiotherapy (the Latvian Cancer Centre right now is the only medical institution in Latvia and the Baltic States to offer radiotherapy).

There's always a phase in which the therapist falls in love with the patient.

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Purchase of radiological apparatus and cytostatic medicines for local centres, with the aim of improving access to treatment for tumoral diseases

There have been three ways to try to impact the brain the therapist's couch, pills and the knife.

Those doses vary between different regions of the world having different levels of health care and there is also a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic doses that can be received during a particular treatment.

You are a healer in a Stone Age village.

Are you a doctor or a faith healer?

The Committee comments on the global trend in diagnostic X ray examinations and the use of radiopharmaceuticals, assesses global practices in radiotherapy and draws attention to accidents with medical sources.

More than 450 clinical facilities apply radiopharmaceutical products in over 2.5 million medical procedures every year.

What we saw in that trial is that that the life expectancies of both groups so the chemotherapy treated group and the Tumor Treating Field group was the same.

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The bars represent survival time taken from the era in which there was only chemotherapy, or surgery, or radiation available.

And once our lives are touched by cancer, we quickly learn that there are basically three weapons, or three tools, that are available to fight the disease surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.

Yeah, I'm training to be something they call an occupational therapist.

18. Artificial radionuclides in the environment arise from civil and military nuclear programmes and from the use of radiopharmaceuticals in medicine.

They deal with a broad spectrum of problems such as development of basic radiation protection standards, diagnosis of overexposure and treatment of radiation injuries, medical supervision of radiation workers, radiation protection of patients and personnel in hospitals, medical handling of radiation emergencies, etc.

Early diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of population with post radiation pathologies need to be carried out among affected groups.

Between 1962 and 1985, cancer related deaths in the United States rose by 8.7 , despite the use of aggressive chemotherapy drugs and radiation therapy, highlighting the dangers of a one size fits all approach to treatment. An understanding of the genetic determinants of patients therapeutic response, it was believed, would enable doctors to develop individualized treatment programs, sparing more responsive patients from harmful overtreatment.

In addition to drug treatment, drug abusing inmates require specific pre release psychological and vocational programmes.

The Committee had focused on exposures from natural sources of radiation, exposures from man made sources of radiation, medical radiation exposures, the production and use of radio isotopes, nuclear power production, occupational radiation exposures, nuclear weapons testing and accidents.

Turning to the issue of cancer and breast cancer in particular, she said a commission on radiotherapy and oncology had been established in the Ministry of Health to improve the quality of cancer services with a view to reducing total mortality from cancer by 15 per cent.

Exposure to radiation occurs from sources and practices, such as nuclear electricity generation, areas of high background from natural radiation, reactor accidents such as the one at Chernobyl, occupations that entail enhanced exposure to man made or naturally occurring sources, and from medical diagnostic and therapeutic procedures utilizing X rays and radionuclides.

And the red line is the treatment as usual medication with a medical doctor.

Paediatrician, Fracture Centre, Child Surgery Department, Luisa C. De Gandulfo Hospital.