Hodgkin’s Disease Treatments — Radiation Therapy

Radiation Therapy for Hodgkin's Disease

Radiation therapy is one of three primary forms of conventional medical treatments used to treat Hodgkin’s disease at Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA). Radiation therapy may be used alone or in combination with other conventional treatments for Hodgkin’s disease, such as surgery or chemotherapy.

Radiation therapy involves delivering high doses of radiation (e.g., X-rays, gamma rays) to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors, and to provide relief from symptoms such as pain. Radiation may come from a machine outside the body (External Beam Radiation Therapy), or it may come from radioactive material placed in the body near Hodgkin’s disease cancer cells (Internal Beam Radiation Therapy).

Innovative radiotherapy techniques for Hodgkin’s disease continue to evolve, enabling physicians to deliver higher and more targeted doses of radiation to cancer cells, while at the same time helping to spare nearby normal tissue.

Radiation oncologists at CTCA use advanced radiation technology and techniques to strengthen your fight against Hodgkin's disease. External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT) and TomoTherapy® Highly Integrated Adaptive Radiotherapy (HI-ART) are two of the innovative radiation therapy technologies CTCA oncologists use to target cancerous cells.

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