Nurses General Nursing
Published Oct 22, 2001
FutureNurse
8 Posts
Well, first of all, I'm not a nurse yet. Maybe you can tell that by my sn but I plan on it, heck i'm not even in college yet. Anyways, I'm doing a paper about radiation and how it is used to treat people with cancer. I need some info about what all goes on and how radiation can be so helpful when it can be also very dangerous, etc. So any info regarding radiation in the medical field that someone, anyone might have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
P_RN, ADN, RN
6,011 Posts
Hi there. Welcome.
My favorite search engine is http://www.Google.com.
Go there and type: radiation in the medical field
and you will get 269,000 sites.
P
Julie, RN
139 Posts
Radiation therapy works alot like chemotherapy (it kills/stops DNA from replicating), except that radiotherapy is a more targetted way of treating cancer (causing less sytemic side effects)-vs-chemo, which is systemic (causing more unwanted side effects).
My cancer information website has links to help you with this:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/1521/
CancerNet's Radiotherapy:
http://www.meb.uni-bonn.de/cancernet/600071.html
Oncolink's Radiation Oncology:
http://oncolink.upenn.edu/specialty/rad_onc/
CancerSourceRN's Radiotherapy and Skin Care:
http://www.cancersourcern.com/Nursing/CE/CECourse.cfm?courseid=129&contentid=22322
Good Luck,
Julie M., RN
Don't count the days,
make the days count!