radiotherapy
/ˌreɪdɪə(ʊ)ˈθɛrəpi
/noun [mass noun]
The treatment of disease, especially cancer, using X-rays or similar forms of radiation.Treatment options for cervical cancer include surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy....
- Surgery may be followed by chemotherapy, radiotherapy or hormone treatment.
- Seven patients treated with radiotherapy developed some radiation telangiectasia.
Derivatives
radiotherapeutic
- Changes in use of chemotherapeutics and alterations of radiotherapeutic regimes may change survival of patients and are of interest in patients with either limited or advanced disease.
- In the radiotherapeutic range, high-energy electron beams penetrate less than high-energy x-ray beams.
- The emerging evidence that locoregional treatment affects mortality is persuasive, and efforts to optimise the surgical and radiotherapeutic management of this common disease should have a high priority.
radiotherapist
/ noun ...- The book was written for practicing and teaching pathologists, but it should also be appealing to radiologists, medical and surgical oncologists, and radiotherapists.
- The medical oncologist and radiotherapist should arrange the appropriate delivery of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
- The choice of radiotherapy regimen was left to the local radiotherapist, but the two regimens shown in previous trials to have good palliative effect were recommended.