Parathyroid cancer has also been associated with external radiation exposure, but, most reports describe an association between radiation and the more common parathyroid adenoma.
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The brachytherapy, as the treatment is called, typically takes about five days; traditional external radiation treatment requires daily trips to a clinic for six weeks.
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The technique was largely abandoned in the late 1950s with the advent of megavoltage radiation equipment, which enabled the delivery of more penetrating external radiation.
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Giuliani has been undergoing hormone therapy for much of the summer and will later have external radiation treatment, five times a week for five weeks.
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The cancer was detected early, and Tanner has been told that any side effects from the 40 external radiation treatments should subside within several months.
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Howe deftly answers questions about prostate cancer and assesses the treatments : surgical, chemical, hormonal, radiation, and the lesser-known proton beam therapy, an external radiation treatment.
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When a patient undergoes external radiation, as much as 90 percent of that radiation can escape and damage cells surrounding the prostate, causing serious side effects.
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Conclusions on the high-level external radiations doses were based on only nine worker deaths, and the conclusions on internal radiation doses were based on 15 deaths.
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This makes the deep-dose equivalent a conservative measure of internal organ exposure to external radiation, while eye and skin exposure to external radiation must be accounted differently.
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D'Amico is author of a report, to be published in two weeks, that compares five-year results of surgery, external radiation, and brachytherapy in nearly 1, 900 patients.
