#126 Radiation Oncology Part 1: 5 Pearls Segment
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
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The Advantages of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy
When we do SBRT, or stereotactic body radiation therapy, we're giving high doses of radiation very quickly over a small number of treatments. Because there's minimal normal tissue in the field, there is not as much damage to normal stuff and your body doesn't have to work as hard in order to repair that. A lot of times those kinds of treatments are so well tolerated, patients have no side effects. They don't even, they're like, are you even turning the beam on? I feel great.
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