放射線治療の最近の進歩(<シリーズ>画期的に進歩した最新の治療法(1))

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Utility of radiation therapy against carcinoma is recently on the increase in number in Japan. Radiotherapy is possible to preserve the organ with cancer and maintain the QOL (quality of life) and is one of the curative therapy for cancer. A wide use radiotherapy at the present time is external beam radiation. However external beam radiotherapy is not able to perfectly block the normal organ around the target of radiotherapy. In order to solve this problem, progress of computer technology in recent years is used, and extremely precision radiotherapy is developed. In extremely precise radiotherapy, there are 3D-comformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT), intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), stereotactic radiation surgery (SRS), stereotactic radiation therapy (SRT) and particle therapy. On the other hand, with progress of molecular biology in recent years, the molecular target medicine which carries out the feeling of increase of the radiation sensitivity is developed and the gene analysis, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), is performed in order to determine the optimal radiation therapy for every patient (tailor maid radiotherapy). Thus, the present radiotherapy has been carrying out new development with progress of radiation physics or radiation biology.
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