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Radiation Treatment Services. View a list of radiation treatment service locations. Radiation treatment services are available at 14 regional cancer centres and 3 satellite facilities in Ontario. The satellite facilities are each closely affiliated with a regional cancer centre to ensure the same high-quality care is available across the province.
Radiation can be given off naturally, like from sunshine and, in low doses, from the earth and rocks. Radiation can also be produced artificially by machines. In lower doses, it is used for things like x-rays, to take pictures of the inside of your body. Radiation therapy to treat cancer uses much higher doses of radiation to destroy cancer cells.
Radiation. Radiation treatment is one of the main methods of treating cancer. You may receive radiation as your only form of treatment, or it may be combined with surgery and chemotherapy. Your exact treatment plan will be determined based on your type and stage of cancer. If you are scheduled to have radiation and you smoke, quitting smoking ...
Questions to ask. Radiation therapy questions. The following are questions that you can ask the healthcare team about radiation therapy treatment. Choose the questions that fit your, or your child’s, situation and add questions of your own. You may find it helpful to take the list to the next appointment and to write down the answers.
RADIATION THERAPY. Radiation therapy works by destroying cancer cells and damaging a cancer cell’s DNA so that it stops dividing and growing. Radiation therapy can shrink a tumour or completely destroy it. It is most effective on cells that grow and divide quickly. Cancer cells tend to divide more quickly than most normal cells.
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We offer SBRT for multiple cancer sites including lung, prostate, and spine. Stereotactic radiosurgery: This type of treatment allows for large doses of radiation delivered under image guidance to tumours within or located near the brain and spinal cord. Multi-modality and concurrent treatment: At Sunnybrook, radiation therapy is integrated in ...
