Internal Radiation Therapy: What To Expect
... When Is Internal Radiation Therapy Used? Your doctor may decide that a high dose of radiation given to a small area of your body is the best way to treat your cancer. Internal radiation therapy allows...

Radiation Therapy Discharge Instructions
... Will I still have side effects after my treatment is complete? Radiation therapy treatments have a cumulative or additive effect. This means that radiation therapy may continue to produce side effects...

Radiation Therapy and You: A Guide to Self-Help During Cancer Treatment
... What Is Radiation Therapy? Radiation therapy (sometimes called radiotherapy, x-ray therapy, or irradiation) is the treatment of disease using penetrating beams of high energy waves or streams of parti...

Radiation Enteritis
... This patient summary on radiation enteritis (inflammation of the intestine) is adapted from a summary written for health professionals by cancer experts. This and other credible information about canc...

Radiation Enteritis
... Radiation enteritis is a functional disorder of the large and small bowel that occurs during or after a course of radiation therapy to the abdomen, pelvis, or rectum. The large and small bowel are ver...