Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Radiation Therapy

Radiation therapy is a most effective way to reduce your risk of breast cancer recurring after surgery. Radiation therapy for breast cancer is use of high-energy radiation to kill rapidly growing cancer cells. Radiation therapies are painless and invisible nor not radioactive after treatment, so it is safe be to around other people including children. It damages both healthy cells and cancer cells in the treatment area. Radiation therapy for breast cancer is mainly two types

External radiation is the most common used type of radiation therapy used for breast cancer. A large machine knows a linear accelerator delivers high-energy X-ray radiation at either the whole breast or just the area of the breast affected by the cancer.

Internal radiation or brachytherapy is used to deliver accelerated partial-breast radiation. A larger dose of radiation is given over a shorter period of time to only the part of the breast where the cancer was, rather than the entire breast.