RADIOTHERAPY


Meaning of RADIOTHERAPY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

receive

In 10 patients receiving combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy , the endoscopic lesions resolved and biopsy specimens were negative.

Other patients who did not receive radiotherapy received up to 15 intrathecal injections in the first year.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Fears that radiotherapy would cause genetic mutations leading to handicaps in offspring appear to be groundless, according to studies among 3,000 survivors.

One other patient withdrew from the trial because of development of a painful rectum during radiotherapy .

Preoperative radiotherapy with 30 Gy was performed in 52 patients.

Six of the patients used an opiate or an anti-diarrhoeal preparation during the radiotherapy .

The study was conducted in a subregional radiotherapy centre and an academic department of gastroenterology and therapeutics.

There is also an increased risk of cancer and high sensitivity to radiation means that radiotherapy can't be used.

We have modified the recently completed St Jude protocol to withhold systemic antimetabolites during radiotherapy .

When cancers did respond, radiotherapy was particularly useful in dealing with secondary growths which were too widespread for surgical relief.

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