Radiation oncology

What are the goals and benefits of radiotherapy?

The aim of radiotherapy is to kill cancerous cells while causing as little damage to healthy cells as possible. Radiotherapy is a local treatment method similar to surgical methods. Although it targets cancerous cells in a certain part of the body, sometimes radiation oncology physicians prefer to use radiotherapy together with treatment methods that reach the whole body, such as chemotherapy, to improve treatment results.

What diseases is radiotherapy used in the treatment of?

• Head and neck cancers
• brain cancers
• Spinal cancers
• Lung cancer
• Prostate cancer
• breast cancer

Devices used in the radiology department;

• X-Ray (X-Ray)
• In the diagnosis of bone and lung diseases.
• mammography
• In the diagnosis of breast diseases
• Bone Densitometry
• Computed Tomography (CT),
• A cross-sectional image of the body is produced.
• It is used to diagnose vascular diseases.
• Treatment of vascular diseases is also done with an angiography device.
• Angiography = DSA = Digital subtraction angiography = Catheter angiography.