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- Is PSA screening helpful?
- Why not just remove my prostate?
- What happens to the prostate after radiation treatment?
- Can Acupuncture help treat cancer?
- Is this the same kind of radiation that spread in Japan, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island?
- How come I don’t feel sick even though my doctor told me I have prostate cancer.
- Can a prostate biopsy make my cancer spread?
- Can supplements be used to treat prostate cancer?
- Is PSA screening helpful?
- What happens if I don’t treat my prostate cancer?
- What is Proton Therapy?
- What is IMRT and Calypso?
- Does radiation hurt, do I feel anything during treatment?
- What is the purpose of the prostate – do I need it to have sex?
- Won’t radiation oncologists recommend radiation and won’t most surgeons recommend surgery?
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Is this the same kind of radiation that spread in Japan, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island?
No. The main health issue with industrial radiation accidents is that airborne radioactive particles can be swallowed or inhaled which can be absorbed into your body for long periods of time leading to multiple health problems.
Treatment of prostate cancer is a targeted treatment using a temporary emission of radiation using electricity to produce photons. There are no photons when the electricity is turned off. Therefore, you are never “radioactive.” Instead your prostate is targeted with high energy X-rays for about 90 seconds when you are being treated and there are no radioactive particles after that 90 seconds is completed.
Written by Dr. David Kornguth on June 17, 2011 | 0 comments