Radiation therapy is one way to treat cancer, along with surgery and chemotherapy. A radiation-generating device or radioactive isotope is used to irradiate high-energy radiation into the human body and affect DNA. Cell membranes, essential for the cell survival, physical, and chemical-biological action, are used to inhibit collapse, necrosis, and proliferation of tumor cells. The goal of radiation therapy is ultimately to irradiate tumor cells in sufficient doses and kill them, and to protect other healthy tissues to improve patient's quality of life. Other purposes are to reduce pain, alleviate symptoms, and prevent tumor cells from spreading.
Irradiation effects both normal and tumor tissue, but healthy tissues recover quickly over time, and tumor tissues recover poorly, so radiation therapy uses this principle. Radiation therapy is not done simply by radiation. Treatment is performed by considering the size of the tumor, the progress and progression rate, the location, the malignancy of the tumor, the damage to the healthy tissue, and the health status of the patient and determining the direction of irradiation, the radiation dose, treatment period, etc.
In recent years, with the development of computers, radiological imaging equipment CT, MRI, and PET-CT, treatment equipment has also been developed, enabling precise treatment. Equipped with state-of-the-art treatment devices and medical systems, the Department of Radiation Oncology continually trying to provide the best medical services based on our advanced medical and holistic treatment spirit for customer satisfaction and recovery of the disease.