What is the mechanism of the chronic radiation enteritis?

Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 09:09 in Health & Medicine

The use of radiation therapy to treat cancer inevitably involves exposure of normal tissues. Although the benefits of this treatment have been well established, a number of patients experience distressing complications as a result injury to normal tissue These side effects related to inflammatory process cause discomfort and decreases the therapeutic benefit by increasing the overall treatment time...

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