LP32918-2
Radiation oncology
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Descriptions
Radiation therapy (or radiotherapy) is the medical use of ionizing radiation as part of cancer treatment to control malignant cells (not to be confused with radiology, the use of radiation in medical imaging and diagnosis). Radiotherapy may be used for curative or adjuvant cancer treatment. It is often used as palliative treatment (where cure is not possible and the aim is for local disease control or symptomatic relief) or as therapeutic treatment (where the therapy has survival benefit but is not curative). Total body irradiation (TBI) is a radiotherapy technique used to prepare the body to receive a bone marrow transplant. Radiotherapy has a few applications in non-malignant conditions, such as the treatment of severe thyroid eye disease, pterygium, prevention of keloid scar growth, and prevention of heterotopic bone formation. The use of radiotherapy in non-malignant conditions is limited partly by worries about the risk of radiation-induced cancers. Copyright Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details. Source: Wikipedia, Radiation oncology (Wikipedia)
A subspecialty of medical oncology and radiology concerned with the radiotherapy of cancer. Source: National Library of Medicine, MeSH 2006
Basic Part Properties
- Part Name
- Radiation oncology
- Part Display Name
- Radiation oncology
- Part Type
- Method (Describes the method by which the test was performed)
- Created On
- 2003-11-10
- Construct for LOINC Short Name
- Radiation Onc
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Language Variants Get Info
| Tag | Language | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| nl-NL | Dutch (Netherlands) | radiotherapie |
| it-IT | Italian (Italy) | Radioterapia oncologica Synonyms: Oncologia radioterapica |
| fr-BE | French (Belgium) | Irradiation oncologique |
| de-AT | German (Austria) | Strahlentherapie-Radioonkologie |
| zh-CN | Chinese (China) | 放射肿瘤学 Synonyms: 放射性肿瘤学; |
| el-GR | Greek (Greece) | Ακτινοθεραπευτική ογκολογία Synonyms: Ακτινοθεραπευτική ογκολογία |
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