✨ Radiotherapy: Using Energy to Treat Disease
Radiotherapy, also known as radiation therapy, is a medical treatment that utilizes precisely focused beams of intense energy to damage the genetic material (DNA) within cells. This damage prevents the cells from growing and dividing, causing them to die. While both cancerous and healthy cells can be affected, cancer cells are generally less capable of repairing this damage than healthy cells, making the treatment effective.
More than half of all people diagnosed with cancer receive some form of radiotherapy as part of their treatment plan.
🔬 How Radiotherapy Works
The fundamental goal of radiotherapy is to deliver a lethal dose of radiation to the target area (the tumor) while sparing as much of the surrounding healthy tissue as possible.
