Radiation oncology

specialist known as a radiation oncologist, a medical physicist, a radiation therapist and a medical dosimetrist. (American Society of Radiologic Technologists). A radiation oncologist determines many things for their patients. The field for Radiologic technologist is always growing and new openings are not rare. Radiation oncologist specialize in the administering of how much radiation a patient will get. Many of the times they have to work with other physicians. The field for radiation…

Radiology is the science of utilizing varying forms of high-energy radiation such as x-rays, for the diagnosis of injury and disease. An x-ray technologist is the medical professional responsible for the x-ray procedure. The technologist has many roles and is obligated to follow protocol while completing daily responsibilities. One of the main roles of the technician is communicating with the patient, this involves but is not limited to: greeting the patient, educating the patient on the…

Introduction Radiation protection policy is distributed among several governmental Agencies in the United States. Each agency is tasked with controlling exposure to radiation and the safe use of radioactive materials and radiation generating devices. These agencies inform their policy with reports and recommendations from a number of organizations, including the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP). The NCRP is a longstanding organization that strives to provide…

infection after surgery seemed to help some cancer patients. Then, he started to use certain kinds of bacteria to treat his cancer patients by infecting them. Although some patients had better therapeutic effect, his technique was shadowed over the radiation therapy. Yet the researchers do not forget his effort. They have learned a great deal about the immune system and how it might be used to treat cancer. Nowadays, immunotherapy has been successfully reported to retain a low tumor regression…

get up underneath the scar and leave a fluid pocket. In result, this could lead to a doctor using a needle to drain all the unnecessary fluid from underside the skin. Along with the loss of part of the breast or the whole breast, Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy are two of the options available that one will have to pick the following surgery. Chemotherapy is a drug that kills cancerous cells, however, it cannot tell the difference between the cancer cells and the normal cells so it kills…

In the interpretative qualitative analysis (IPA), conducted by Gold, et al. and titled, “An Exploration of Music Listening in Chronic Pain,” the purpose was to create improved guidelines to assist in developing music-based self-management strategies for individuals suffering from chronic pain. Semi-structured interviews were implemented for eleven individuals suffering from multi-sited pain for at least two years at a chronic pain clinic. Each interview was digitally recorded; lasting twenty to…

She has cancer. It feels weird to write that down, but worse to say it out loud. She hid it from her children for nearly a month. It was in the middle of May in 2013 and it was the last of my sophomore year. The morning was hot and waking up at noon made me feel worse. There was a hard pounding in my head as if someone was gripping it and shaking it back and forth. I was unbalanced and my body was ready to topple down like an almost dead tree. I headed to the kitchen for breakfast and to my…

She fought hard, going through chemo and radiation treatments, and yet living life as she was unaffected by the cancer, what courage I asked, could I be as strong? She often said to me “it is what it is dad,” I devoted my time to research on this dark cloud that loomed over us, but there was just…

leading to anemia, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia (Copstead & Banasik, 2013). Gastrointestinal complications are common problems for cancer patients, these include constipation due to pain management, impaction, intestinal obstruction, diarrhea, and radiation enteritis. Cancer patients can also the following problems: hypercalcemia, adrenal insufficiency, and inappropriate antidiuretic syndrome, weight gain, sexual dysfunction/loss of libido in men, hot flashes, menopausal symptoms in younger…

Breast cancer is a dangerous form of cancer. Although there are many survivors there are also many who don’t survive. There are many different types of cancers. What is triple negative breast cancer (TNBC)? Triple-Negative Breast Cancer is when the three most common types of receptors know to fuel or help grow most breast cancers are not present in the cancer tumor. Which means that the cancer cells have tested negative for hormone growth factor receptor 2 (HER-2), estrogen receptors (ER), and…