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www.balancedhealthtoday.com www.balancedhealthtoday.com www.balancedhealthtoday.com How Can Radiotherapy Help With Prostate Cancer? Radiotherapy is perhaps one of the longest standing known treatments for various forms of cancer across the spectrum of the disease all over the world. Discovered late in the 19th century by German Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen, it was already in use for medical purposes by the turn of the century, and today, there are constantly newer and newer applications for the radiation in medicine, and it remains one of the favorite options for cancer treatment. Specifically, doctors prescribe treatment for prostate cancer patients based on the apparent aggression of the carcinoma, the stage of its growth, whether or not it has metastasized, the age of the patient, and his general health. Naturally, the purpose of treatment is to eliminate all of the cancer, or at the very least, as much of it as possible. For this reason, they aim to catch a patient’s prostate cancer in its earliest stage for if the malignancy is at a very advanced stage, the purpose of the treatment may only be palliative for the most part, intended toward making the patient as comfortable as possible for as long as they can manage. Therapeutic radiology in particular (or radiation therapy, or radiotherapy) makes use of high-energy particles or waves (x-rays or gamma rays) to focus damaging radiation on the region of a prostate tumor with the intent of inflicting as much genetic damage on …