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RADIATION THERAPY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
Synonyms:
actinotherapy; irradiation; radiation; radiation therapy; radiotherapy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("radiation therapy" is a kind of...):
therapy ((medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.))
Domain category:
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "radiation therapy"):
phototherapy (the use of strong light to treat acne or hyperbilirubinemia of the newborn)
Curietherapy; radium therapy (the use of radium in radiation therapy)
X-ray therapy (the therapeutic use of X rays)
Context examples:
Treatments include surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy.
(Bile Duct Cancer, NIH)
Examples of neoadjuvant therapy include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and hormone therapy.
(Neoadjuvant therapy, NCI Dictionary)
An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination that is often used with radiation therapy to treat a certain type of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma in males.
(OEPA, NCI Dictionary)
Oncolytic virotherapy may make it easier to kill tumor cells with chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
(Oncolytic virotherapy, NCI Dictionary)
An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used with radiation therapy to treat childhood Hodgkin lymphoma.
(ABVE, NCI Dictionary)
This may prevent damage from radiation therapy.
(Ovarian shielding, NCI Dictionary)
Palifermin is used to prevent and treat oral mucositis (mouth sores) caused by high-dose chemotherapy and radiation therapy in leukemia and lymphoma.
(Palifermin, NCI Dictionary)
An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination that is often used with radiation therapy to treat a certain type of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma in females.
(OPPA, NCI Dictionary)
Surgery, radiation therapy, or a drug treatment to stop the functioning of the ovaries.
(Ovarian ablation, NCI Dictionary)
They may make it easier to kill tumor cells with chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
(Oncolytic virus, NCI Dictionary)
