haemarthrosis
haemarthrosis (heem-arth-roh-sis) n. bleeding within a joint, which may follow injury or may occur spontaneously in bleeding disorders, such as haemophilia.
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Radiation therapists: treating cancer with technology.
Magazine article from: Occupational Outlook Quarterly; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...The man assisting the patient is a radiation therapist. He is using encouragement...cancer, a common form of treatment is radiation therapy, which helps to shrink tumors and save lives. Radiation therapists administer this treatment...
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Radiation hormesis, or, could all that radiation be good for us?
Magazine article from: Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...technologists work under significant radiation protection constraints. These constraints...on the linear no-threshold (LNT) radiation paradigm, which was developed in the...largely on the deleterious effects of radiation as they were understood at the time...
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Radiation Helps Drugs 'Zero in' on Tumor Blood Vessels; Team Reports Using Technique to Shrink Tumors, Delay Their Growth.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service; 1/20/2003; 700+ words
; ...their growth in animal studies by using radiation to enable a drug to "zero in" and block...might be achieved in patients by using radiation to activate drug targets in tumors...use combinations of chemotherapy and radiation to improve the anti-cancer effect for...
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Radiation Protection For Radiologic Technologists.
Magazine article from: Radiologic Technology; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Radiation protection involves the safe and effective use of radiation. The need for radiation protection is based on the known biological effects of exposure to radiation on animals and humans. Human-specific data on radiation effects are derived...
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RADIATION FROM HEALTH SCANS CAUSES CONCERN INCREASING USE STIRS CANCER FEARS.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 7/5/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...stage breast cancer. She said the radiation exposure from the scan is hardly a major...receive relatively high levels of natural radiation 40,000 feet closer to the sun. But...subjected her to nearly 300 times the radiation she would have received on a roundtrip...
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Radiation-related skin conditions may find way to derm's door
Magazine article from: Dermatology Times; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...may commonly present with superficial radiation burns Ann Arbor, Mich. - Patients who have had radiation therapy for cancer often find the therapy...professor and chair of the department of radiation oncology, University of Michigan, Ann...
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Radiation-induced pneumonitis outside the radiation field / In reply
Magazine article from: Mayo Clinic Proceedings; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...report by Arbetter and associates on radiation-induced pneumonitis in the nonirradiated...and 1 female) with lung cancer in whom radiation-induced pneumonitis developed in the...respiratory failure during the course of radiation therapy or just after completion of treatment...
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Radiation safety.
Magazine article from: AORN Journal; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...pregnant they need not concern themselves with radiation exposure. Without proper education and good...patients and to protect themselves from unnecessary radiation exposure. TYPES OF RADIATION Radiation is classified into three categories...
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Radiation abundant in suprising places
News Wire article from: University Wire; 5/14/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Vista) (U-WIRE) EDMOND, Okla. -- Radiation is energy discharged from an atom's nucleus...sources are man-made. Natural and medical radiation sources account for the majority of radiation to humans, said Dr. Evan Lemley, University...
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Radiation before surgery improves pancreatic cancer outcomes.
Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health & Science; 12/28/2008; 700+ words
; ...Center have shown that administering radiation therapy prior to surgery nearly doubles...received pre-surgical (neoadjuvant) radiation had almost double the overall survival...similar patients who didn't undergo radiation, and survived significantly longer than...
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Radiation Mutagenesis
Book article from: World of Microbiology and Immunology
...mutations and other radiation mediated genotoxic...are many kinds of radiations that can increase mutations. Radiation is often classified...different types of radiations in producing mutations...mutagenic effect of radiation is generally assumed...
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Radiation Therapy
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
Radiation Therapy Definition Radiation therapy, sometimes called radiotherapy, x-ray therapy radiation treatment, cobalt therapy, electron beam therapy, or irradiation uses high energy, penetrating waves or particles such as x rays, gamma...
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Radiation Exposure
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
Radiation exposure The term radiation exposure refers to any occasion on which a human or other animal or a plant has been placed in the presence of radiation from a radioactive source. For example, scientists have learned...
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Radiation Detectors
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Radiation Detectors Radiation detectors are devices that sense information about ionizing radiation. Although light and radio waves are technically forms of electromagnetic radiation, devices that detect them are not considered “ radiation...
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Radiation Injuries
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Radiation injuries Definition Radiation injuries are caused by ionizing radiation emitted by such sources as the sun, x-ray and other diagnostic machines, tanning beds, and radioactive elements RADIATION SOURCES Natural sources Radon gas 55...
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