subject: Radiation Therapy In Dogs [print this page] Radiation therapy is a form of universal treatment for prostate cancer reduced in those days. It contains a powerful X-rays used to kill cancer cells. These images can be supplied by external exposure to emissions in the prostate seed implantation.
If the tumor is large conventional hormone therapy and radiotherapy in the company, blocking male hormones that the development of tumors in the prostate to stimulate. These hormones control the time and then continue to take months or even years.
External radiation does not only focus their attention on the simplicity, but the seminal vesicles and prostate cancer in areas where much can spread. In previous treatments, which are universal and lymph nodes irradiated in the field of investment, although it is less important today, this aid is a good job.
In most cases, more serious side effects of radiation, apart from fatigue and possibly diarrhea, when used for transmission of the rectum, but how it happened fairly quickly after stopping treatment.
Ultimately, his inability to affect 40% to 50% of patients. This figure does not come with the computer as a justification for such treatment must be configured in a patient more than accurate measurements possible cancer.
While the internal radiotherapy is a procedure where a small permanent seed implantation in the easy delivery of large amounts of radiation in the direction of diseased tissue.
When ultrasound is used to position the barrier is very thin needle is in its simplicity, making efforts for young children and iodine in specimens that were previously allocated through a complex computer program. This process takes approximately one hour under local anesthesia, the patient can usually go home the same dan.Ti procedures can be implemented in the hospital.
