Unless otherwise stated, the doses are from fractionated exposures.

Radiotherapy was widely used to combat cancer.

References External links DARPA System F6 information Fractionated Spacecraft workshop, Colorado Springs, August 2006.

Patients requiring radiotherapy or chemotherapy could only be treated in Israel.

Access to life saving radiotherapy is limited or non existent in many areas.

There is no radiotherapy and the chemotherapy is of very, very low standard.

The endocrine system is affected by radiation, showing clearly impaired secretion of growth hormones at fractionated doses totalling 18 Gy.

A woman, Samira Sweirki, has to go to radiotherapy every day, five days a week, for two months.

About 90 out of every 100 people (90 ) with T1 glottic cancers are cured with radiotherapy or surgery alone.

Thyroid doses in the region of 1 Gy, protracted over two weeks, resulted in hypothyroidism in patients treated by cranial radiotherapy.

The dose to individual patients undergoing radiotherapy is very much higher than in diagnosis, but the number of patients is smaller.

These include the underlying disease and the modality of the treatment, which often includes surgery and chemotherapy in addition to the radiotherapy.

Most of the information comes from patients who have received radiotherapy and is derived by new analytical methods and by continued careful monitoring.

Some also provide information on issues that cannot be addressed by the atomic bomb survivor data, such as the effects of low chronic doses, highly fractionated exposures and variability among populations.

It has to be noted that the International Atomic Energy Agency has nominated the Latvian Cancer Centre as an institution that is of European importance in terms of regional competence in the area of radiotherapy (the Latvian Cancer Centre right now is the only medical institution in Latvia and the Baltic States to offer radiotherapy).

Radiation therapy Radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy, X ray therapy, or irradiation) is the use of ionizing radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors.

Populations that can be subdivided according to exposure include the Life Span Study group in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, groups of patients undergoing radiotherapy and some occupational groups.

Except as a result of serious accidents and the unwanted but inevitable irradiation of healthy tissues in radiotherapy, the doses incurred by man are not so large as to produce deterministic effects.

Radiation Radiotherapy is used when drug treatment is failing to control the pain of a growing tumor, such as in bone metastisis (most commonly), penetration of soft tissue, or compression of sensory nerves.

Its contributions in the areas of medicine and industry have enhanced the development of indigenous capabilities in applied radiation biology and radiotherapy and strengthened the scientific and technological content of industry in recipient countries.

Additionally, 192Ir is used as a source of gamma radiation for the treatment of cancer using brachytherapy, a form of radiotherapy where a sealed radioactive source is placed inside or next to the area requiring treatment.

quot During this last hermetic closure, since the massacre, we know of a considerable number of patients who did not get permits to leave the Gaza Strip in order to go inside Israel and receive radiotherapy.

Even a relatively small amount of material such as cobalt 60 used in radiotherapy could cause serious harm if combined with conventional explosives in a so called dirty bomb (or otherwise deliberately used to expose the public to dangerous radiation).

We have substantially stepped up our Internet presence, we have revitalized our public seminar programme, and we have conducted a series of media campaigns on important topics, including nuclear security, radiotherapy, nuclear power and earlier this month the Chernobyl Forum report.

Turning to the issue of cancer and breast cancer in particular, she said a commission on radiotherapy and oncology had been established in the Ministry of Health to improve the quality of cancer services with a view to reducing total mortality from cancer by 15 per cent.

By way of comparison, consider that in Austria, where the Agency is headquartered, we have approximately one radiotherapy machine for every 270,000 people whereas for most African countries the ratio is about one machine for every 10 million people, and some countries have no such facilities at all.

The Special Committee was informed of a particularly serious case of a woman from the Gaza Strip who had to undergo radiotherapy in Israel every day and whose husband was compelled to wait for up to eight hours in front of the Civil Administration every day in order to obtain entry permits to Israel.