External Beam Radiation Treatment

Beams are generated outside the patient usually by a linear accelerator see below and are targeted at the tumor site.

External beam radiation treatment.

External beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer is treatment using radiation to kill cancer cells in your prostate. This allows the radiation oncologist to adjust the position of the patient or. External beam radiation therapy comes from a machine that aims radiation at your cancer it is a local treatment which means it treats a specific part of your body for example if you have cancer in your lung you will have radiation only to your chest not to your whole body. Types of external radiation therapy three dimensional conformal radiation therapy 3d crt.

External beam radiotherapy ebrt is the most common form of radiotherapy radiation therapy the patient sits or lies on a couch and an external source of ionizing radiation is pointed at a particular part of the body. Your doctor may recommend external beam radiation for prostate cancer as an option at different times during your cancer treatment and for different reasons including. In contrast to brachytherapy sealed source radiotherapy and unsealed source radiotherapy in which the radiation source is inside the body external beam radiotherapy directs. Ebrt is also used to decrease pain caused by bone metastasis.

In this technique a large machine called a linear accelerator aims a beam of high energy radiation at the breast affected by the cancer. This helps to reduce radiation damage to normal tissues and. Radiation is a very strong type of x ray. The prostate is a male sex gland that helps make semen.

The urethra is a tube that carries urine from your bladder to the end of your penis. It wraps around your urethra and the bottom of your bladder. External beam radiation therapy ebrt is used to kill cancer cells or stop them from spreading. As the only primary treatment for cancer usually for early stage cancer that is confined to your prostate in combination with.