Intro to Cancer
difference of normal cells vs cancer cells
Healthy cells normally grow and divide to form new cells, but cancer cells grow and divide faster than regular cells.
what is the one of the most well know cancer treatment?
Radiation therapy
According to UCLA Health, the most significant, recent advancement to radiation therapy is???
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy
a tumour
How does radiation therapy work?
using high-energy rays, like x-rays, to destroy or damage cancer cells.
What does SBRT stand for???
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy
what do some people experience in the early ages of cancer
In the early stages, people may experience fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, internal bleeding
what is the focus of radiation therapy
prevent cancer from spreading to other parts of the body,
With the introduction of 4D imaging doctors can now do what?
Accurately target the tumor with high intensity rays without damaging healthy cells
what can cancer in the lungs inhibit?
Cancer in the lungs can inhibit breathing
Radiation therapy is not a perfect treatment, while it helps beat cancer what can it also cause?
Cancer
With one treatment of SBRT being as effective as how many weeks of traditional radiation treatment?
6 weeks of traditional radiation treatment
how does cancer kill you
generally grows into an internal organ and hampers its function
name the success rates of any particular kind of cancer in early stages
prostate, breast, lung, head and neck
Prostate - 90%
Breast - 90-95%
Lung - 80%
Head and Neck - 70-90%
The successfulness of radiation treatment varies on many different types of factors such as?
The type of cancer and how developed the cancer is.