Radiation Therapy (Part 1)

About the Video:
Radiation therapy is an important part of cancer treatment. As a result of advances in technology, doctors are now able to use radiation to treat tumors more precisely than ever before. In this interview with Ellen Beth Levitt, Dr. Mohan Suntha discusses new approaches in cancer care using radiation therapy.

Specific topics covered in part one of this two-part interview include:

What is radiation therapy
Types of cancer treated with radiation
External beam radiation
Planning radiation treatment (mapping)
Triology
Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)

About the Expert:
Dr. Mohan Suntha is the Vice Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Associate Director of the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center. He is also a professor of radiation oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Related Links:

Dr. Mohan Suntha
http://www.umm.edu/doctors/mohan__suntha.html

Radiation Therapy (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya27Tvvb0qY

UMGCC Radiation Oncology Program
http://www.umgcc.org/radiation_oncology_program/index.htm

Video: Radiation Therapy Patient Guide
http://www.umm.edu/videos/misc/radiation_therapy_resource_guide.htm

Overview: Triology Radiation Therapy
http://www.umgcc.org/trilogy/index.htm

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• suntha
• mohan suntha
• radiation
• radiation therapy
• cancer
• treatment
• mapping
• precise
• external beam radiation
• triology
• imrt
• mht
• umgcc
• ummc

[coldfusion1111]

My brother is going through radiation therapy this week for his thyroid tumor. He had his thyroid removed three weeks ago and now will go through the use of a radiation treatment (beta and gamma) to isolate and remove remnants of the tumor. We're praying for his speedy recovery.

Prayers welcome..

[skaterchick20151]

Hey I wish you guys good luck and don't give up hope :) I lost my lil sis a few weeks ago to childhood lukemia, but ever since i first heard she had cancer I have been studying to become an Oncologist :) I've only got 5 more years and I can get a job and do what I love :)

[NamesGrnd]

then she kept saying ino ino ino ino and someting just combied like connected went together like we just both felt someting.

Mum i love you i think about you everyday ave only got 2 things that makes me remmember you, a teedy cat evrybody makes fun of me in school but they just dont now and a piture of me and you playing nitendo wii mum i love you please dont give up be brve i will try vist you every sunday love you (am crying)

[NamesGrnd]

An only 10 but i have to let this out my mum has a tumor they say its not canceras i pray for her am not going to liw and say id do it every night but ill try i saw my mum last sunday and as soon as i saw hear i cryed my grandad told me i have to sat strong because if i cry my my mum crys so i tried my best not to but she was still crys, Have you ever heard someone say uhh this song toched my heart well when i was talking tomy mum he said 2 things me and you have something specheal i cryed and

[Haloskulls117]

@Sanosuke004 not true, radiation kills the cancer before it kills you, so that way. the doctors can avoid lawsuits. if you still have the cancer, try the 30 day diet of raw vegtables, it works. and it may target the part of your body that has the cancer, but sense when does "radiation" sound like a good treatment for a major illness? that stuff was used to kill thousands.

[Sanosuke004]

@Haloskulls117 Get more information first before you criticize radiation therapy. Radiation therapy affects ONLY the area that it is aimed at. The radiation is more than a X-ray machine does at any one point, but not lethal enough to kill. I also had a team of trained professionals (meaning doctorates and what not) who knew what they were doing as they pointed the machine at my head. They calibrate the machines weekly to ensure they are working.

Radiation if used correctly will not kill.

[Haloskulls117]

@redsoxbost your lucky, chemo and radiation will kill you, only %3 of people survive radiation, dont trust your doctors

[Haloskulls117]

@Sanosuke004 you need to get off that radiation NOW! that stuff will kill you, go on a 30 day diet of nothing but raw vegtables and water. thats it, it will cure you FOR GOOD, look it up, radiation kills you faster than any other cancer would

[Haloskulls117]

@AgendiaInc chemo and radiation will kill you, sense when does "radiation" sound like a good treatment for a major illness?

[Haloskulls117]

@skaterchick20151 did she have radiation treatment? if so, thats what killed her, not the cancer