One of the biggest surprises for many of our new patients in radiation therapy is how much time it takes to get treated. They expect that they will come in, get treated, and be finished on that day. Imagine their surprise when they are told they will have to get treated each workday for up [...]
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One star Mondays jumps from the 70s to the 90s with Ecuadorean rap sensation Gerardo Mejía’s biggest (and only) hit. According to his Wikipedia page, Gerardo is now an A&R executive at Interscope Records who was responsible for bringing Enrique Iglesias to prominence. Indeed he has much to answer for. Of all the types of cancer we treat with radiation, head and neck cancer has by far the worst side effects. Head and neck cancer comes in many different forms, but one thing those tumors have in common is that they are usually very close to radiation sensitive structures like the parotid glands (which produce [...] This is part 1 of what will hopefully be an ongoing series of posts to attempt to remove some of the mystery around radiation therapy. I’m going to begin by explaining the rationale behind treating cancer with radiation and then move on to the behind the scenes details that go into delivering a therapeutic dose [...] |
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