What Is Radiation Oncology?
Radiation oncology is an independent discipline combining multidisciplinary and high-tech technologies
Radiation oncology
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- Chinese name
- Radiation oncology
- Attributes
- Independent discipline
- Purpose
- Defend human health
- Accomplishment
- One of the effective ways to treat and control tumors
- Radiation oncology is an independent discipline combining multidisciplinary and high-tech technologies
- About 70% of tumor patients need different degrees of radiation therapy to achieve the purpose of curing tumors or alleviating symptoms and improving quality of life. At present, early-stage or stage I tumors such as nasopharyngeal cancer, laryngeal cancer, and rectal cancer, after simple radiation therapy, have a 5-year cure rate of 80-95% or more. The five-year survival rate for prostate cancer can reach 40-50%. Comprehensive treatment combined with radiotherapy and surgery, chemotherapy and other treatments can make 40% of all types of cancer fight for clinical cure. The remission rate of intractable pain caused by bone metastasis of malignant tumors can reach 80-90%, and the purpose of local control of tumors can be achieved to varying degrees. In recent years, with the comprehensive treatment theory and viewpoints of tumors being accepted and clinical implementation, and the development and improvement of radiotherapy equipment and radiotherapy technology, especially the clinical application of conformal intensity modulated three-dimensional radiotherapy technology, the scope of radiotherapy indications has been further expanded, and more Improved the efficacy of tumor radiotherapy. The fact that radiation therapy has become one of the important and effective means of treating and controlling tumors is widely recognized.
- Radiation oncology, like all other disciplines, is still evolving and improving, and will continue to make a huge contribution to defending human health for a considerable period of time in the future.