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What Is Radiation
Health Encyclopedia: Dental X Rays
X-ray - teeth
What the risks are
There is very low radiation exposure. However, no one should receive more radiation than necessary. A lead apron can be used to cover the body to reduce radiation exposure, especially for women who are or may be pregnant.
Special considerations
Dental x-rays can reveal
Expert & Community Posts
Guide to Radiation
By Jacki Donaldson , Health Expert...HealthCentral's Expert Patients, I have written a guide to radiation.When it comes to breast... Read more »
Prostate Cancer Treatment: What to Try if Radiation Fails
By Jay Motola , Health Expert...clear information on what treatment I can get if radiation fails. I have been receiving Lupron,... Read more »
Breast Reconstruction After Masctectomy and Radiation - What's Next with Lipo, Implants
By Natalia Hernandez , Health Expert...in January of this year and I also had 7 weeks of radiation that I completed at the end of... Read more »
Fiducial Marker Seeds for Prostate Cancer: What They Do and Why They're Used
By Marc Greenstein , Health Expert...localized prostate cancer and I have chosen to have radiation therapy. My radiation oncologist... Read more »
MammoSite: FDA-Approved, But Does It Work?
By PJ Hamel , Health Expert...York Times article on the relatively new MammoSite radiation therapy for breast cancer patients... Read more »
Health Guide
Radiation for Breast Cancer: Radiation with Lumpectomy, Mammosite Radiation, Brachytherapy
When it comes to breast cancer treatment, radiation can seem like a walk in the park compared to major surgery and months of chemotherapy. For me, it was a breeze. I had already survived a lumpectomy... Read more »Types of Breast Cancer: Invasive/Infiltrating Ductal Carcinoma (IDC)
...place. This lump, made up of cancerous cells surrounded by scar tissue caused by the cancer, is what the radiation oncologist took a sample of–a biopsy–to see if it contained cancer cells. In... Read more »Chest tomogram
...Laminography; Planigraphy; Stratigraphy; Tomogram - chest What the risks are There is low radiation exposure. X-rays are monitored and regulated to provide the minimum amount of... Read more »Hand X-ray
X-ray - hand What the risks are There is low radiation exposure. X-rays are monitored and regulated to provide the minimum amount of radiation exposure needed... Read more »Chest X-ray
... Chest radiography; Serial chest x-ray; X-ray - chest What the risks are There is low radiation exposure. X-rays are monitored and regulated to provide the minimum amount of radiation... Read more »Images
Medications
...medical history (including previous heart disease, radiation therapy in the chest area), and... Read more »
...response to therapy, and other chemotherapy drugs or radiation treatment you may be ... Read more »
...men with other medications and sometimes with radiation treatments to treat prostate cancer.... Read more »
...medical history (including previous heart disease, radiation treatment to the chest area), and... Read more »
...medical history (including previous heart disease, radiation treatment to the chest area, or if... Read more »
Related News
Radiation Seeds for Breast Cancer
May 05, 2008TORONTO (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- June McNamee counts her family among her many blessings. They were her lifeline when she was diagnosed with... Read summary »
Easing Radiation Side Effects
May 05, 2008LAFAYETTE, La. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- This year, more than 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Many of them will have... Read summary »
Targeting Lung Cancer
August 11, 2006WALDORF, Md. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Lung cancer is the leading cause of death in both men and women. Until now, the only treatment has been... Read summary »
Medical Debate: Mammogram or Not?
May 05, 2008TAMPA, Fla. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Terri and JoEllen Warnke spend each Thursday together. JoEllen is a nurse, and Terri's a volunteer. The two... Read summary »
GPS for Prostate Cancer
May 05, 2008SEATTLE (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- When a prostate shifts during radiation treatment for prostate cancer, technicians run the risk of missing the... Read summary »
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