Most important things to ask your doctors and how to get the best possible care. Radiation can cure or control cancer by inhibiting the cancer cells from dividing or reproducing. About fifty or sixty percent of patients with cancer will require radiation at sometime during their lifetime.
Radiation is a safe and effective form of treatment for patients of all ages.
Please remember that there have been vast improvements in the equipment and delivery of radiation treatment over the last 20 to 30 years. The radiation oncologist is the medical doctor in charge of a patient's radiation treatment. He or she prescribes and plans the radiation course that patients will be taking. Any side effects from the radiation will be recognized and treated by the radiation oncologist. The other members of the medical team include the medical physicist , the radiation therapist , and the dosimeterist .