Radiation Therapy (Noun)
Meaning
(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The doctor explained that the patient would undergo radiation therapy to reduce the size of the tumor before surgery.
- Radiation therapy was used in conjunction with chemotherapy to treat the patient's stage three cancer.
- After a diagnosis of lymphoma, the patient began a course of radiation therapy to target the affected lymph nodes.
- The oncologist recommended a combination of radiation therapy and hormone therapy to treat the patient's prostate cancer.
- The patient's radiation therapy treatment required several visits to the hospital over the course of several weeks.