Radiation and Clinical Oncology at Clinician Care Hospital
Clinical and Radiation Oncology is the field of medicine that deals with the non surgical & non invasive treatment of Cancers across all sites , enabled by the precise use of Radiation, Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy
Dr. Deepak Ramamoorthy
MBBS, MD (Radiation Therapy)
Dr. Karthik Subramaniam Thiagarajan MDRT., MPH
Consultant Radiation Oncologist,
Chennai
Role of Radiation in Oncology
At high doses, radiation therapy kills cancer cells or slows their growth by damaging their DNA. Cancer cells whose DNA is damaged beyond repair stop dividing or die. When the damaged cells die, they are broken down and removed by the body.
Radiation therapy does not kill cancer cells right away. It takes days or weeks of treatment before DNA is damaged enough for cancer cells to die. Then, cancer cells keep dying for weeks or months after radiation therapy ends.