Saturday, April 10, 2010

Radiotherapy Oncology

Oncology is the study and examination of cancer. Oncology is defined in three areas of discipline: medical oncology, radiation oncology and surgical oncology. There are many cancers that are treated by the oncologist and some of them are: breast cancers, malignant melanomas, stomach cancers, bone tumors, and Hodgkin's disease.

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What is catalyst oncology? It is a special laboratory that helps patients with medical condition dealing with tumors, including the origin, development, diagnosis, and treatment of malignant neoplasms. In short it is the study of cancers.

Oncology is the study of tumors and cancers. A radiation oncologist is a physician who specializes in the treatment of cancer using radiation therapy methods and the study of controlling cancer. Radiation prevents the cancerous cells from reproducing and can also be used to relieve pain from a tumor by shrinking it.

Treatment of cancer as a whole evolves from surgical oncology through radiation oncology and through medical oncology. Now it is the era of biological oncology. The future oncologist may not be a surgeon or a gist who manipulates the cells in the laboratory and then do the extension of treatment.

Being informed that you or a loved one has been diagnosed with cancer is never an easy thing to accept. Thanks to the advances in modern medicine now though, the diagnosis of cancer appears to be less of a death sentence than it was, say, 30 years ago. Treatment is considerably more effective if the disease is detected at an early enough stage

I called on Jose Rodriguez, President of RISMED Oncology Systems, a Huntsville company that provides high medical technology to radiotherapy professionals around the globe, to get his input on the subject. Jose is an old friend and client and if anyone can give pointers on doing business internationally, Jose is the man.

The primary intention of cancer treatment is to achieve cure and improve survival. Another equally important intention gaining importance in recent years is to conserve the structural and functional aspects of the organ with cancer. Radiotherapy has an important role in breast cancer as it helps in the attainment of both these objectives of cancer treatment.

Radiotherapy involves exposing cancer cells to a tumor to radiation (we say also ray or radiation) that inhibit the multiplication of cells and cause their destruction. These rays are produced by particle accelerators, or by radioactive sources. This is called "radiation" of the tumor.