radionuclide scanning
A procedure that produces pictures (scans) of structures inside the body, including areas where there are cancer cells.
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157 matchesradiopharmaceutical
A radiopharmaceutical is a medication containing a radioactive component, used to produce diagnostic images or deliver targeted radiation treatment.
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The use of a drug that makes tumor cells more sensitive to radiation therapy.
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A drug that makes tumor cells more sensitive to radiation therapy.
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A type of external radiation therapy that uses special equipment to position the patient and precisely give a single large dose of radiation to a tumor.
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High-energy radiation aimed at a tumor to break its DNA, given in many small doses so healthy tissue can recover.
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2ME2.
Read definitionbone-seeking radioisotope
A radioactive substance that is given through a vein, and collects in bone cells and in tumor cells that have spread to the bone.
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Treatment that combines chemotherapy with radiation therapy.
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A blood estradiol result means little without knowing where in the cycle, or where in life, the sample was taken.
Read definitionneuroradiologist
Neuroradiologists interpret imaging of the brain, spine, and nervous system and often perform minimally invasive procedures guided by those same images.
Read definitionwhole-brain radiotherapy
A type of external radiation therapy used to treat patients who have cancer in the brain.
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A picture of the body recorded on paper rather than on film.
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A type of x-ray in which a picture of the body is recorded on paper rather than on film.
Read definitionabdominal x-ray
A quick plain film of the belly that is read mainly from the pattern of gas rather than from the organs themselves.
Read definitionbone scan
An imaging test that maps repair activity across the whole skeleton in one pass, often long before an x-ray shows anything.
Read definitionchemoradiation
Two treatments given in the same weeks so that one sensitizes the tumor to the other, at the cost of harsher side effects.
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Treatment can come from a machine outside the body, from a source placed inside it, or from a radioactive drug carried in the blood.
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A substance given in a quantity too small to have any effect, chosen purely so its movement through the body can be watched.
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The same beam that produces a picture at low dose destroys cancer cells at high dose, and only the amount and aiming differ.
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