RO meaning in Medical ?

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What is Radiation Oncology mean?

Radiation therapy or radiotherapy, often abbreviated RT, RTx, or XRT, is a therapy using ionizing radiation, generally provided as part of cancer treatment to control or kill malignant cells and normally delivered by a linear accelerator. Radiation therapy may be curative in a number of types of cancer if they are localized to one area of the body. It may also be used as part of adjuvant therapy, to prevent tumor recurrence after surgery to remove a primary malignant tumor (for example, early stages of breast cancer). Radiation therapy is synergistic with chemotherapy, and has been used before, during, and after chemotherapy in susceptible cancers. The subspecialty of oncology concerned with radiotherapy is called radiation oncology. A physician who practices in this subspecialty is a radiation oncologist.

Radiation therapy is commonly applied to the cancerous tumor because of its ability to control cell growth. Ionizing radiation works by damaging the DNA of cancerous tissue leading to cellular death. To spare normal tissues (such as skin or organs which radiation must pass through to treat the tumor), shaped radiation beams are aimed from several angles of exposure to intersect at the tumor, providing a much larger absorbed dose there than in the surrounding healthy tissue. Besides the tumour itself, the radiation fields may also include the draining lymph nodes if they are clinically or radiologically involved with the tumor, or if there is thought to be a risk of subclinical malignant spread. It is necessary to include a margin of normal tissue around the tumor to allow for uncertainties in daily set-up and internal tumor motion. These uncertainties can be caused by internal movement (for example, respiration and bladder filling) and movement of external skin marks relative to the tumor position.

Radiation oncology is the medical specialty concerned with prescribing radiation, and is distinct from radiology, the use of radiation in medical imaging and diagnosis. Radiation may be prescribed by a radiation oncologist with intent to cure ("curative") or for adjuvant therapy. It may also be used as palliative treatment (where cure is not possible and the aim is for local disease control or symptomatic relief) or as therapeutic treatment (where the therapy has survival benefit and can be curative). It is also common to combine radiation therapy with surgery, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, immunotherapy or some mixture of the four. Most common cancer types can be treated with radiation therapy in some way.

The precise treatment intent (curative, adjuvant, neoadjuvant therapeutic, or palliative) will depend on the tumor type, location, and stage, as well as the general health of the patient. Total body irradiation (TBI) is a radiation therapy technique used to prepare the body to receive a bone marrow transplant. Brachytherapy, in which a radioactive source is placed inside or next to the area requiring treatment, is another form of radiation therapy that minimizes exposure to healthy tissue during procedures to treat cancers of the breast, prostate and other organs. Radiation therapy has several applications in non-malignant conditions, such as the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, acoustic neuromas, severe thyroid eye disease, pterygium, pigmented villonodular synovitis, and prevention of keloid scar growth, vascular restenosis, and heterotopic ossification. The use of radiation therapy in non-malignant conditions is limited partly by worries about the risk of radiation-induced cancers.

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Rough Opening	Academic & Science
Restrictive Orifice	Academic & Science
Rated Output	Academic & Science
Regional Office	Banking
Running Out	Business
Retail Outlet	Business
Rush Order	Business
Revenue Officer	Business
Red Oxide	Chemistry
Red Orchestra	Community
Romantic Obsession	Community
Renewables Obligation	Community
Ring Out	Computing
ROBLOX	Computing
Romania	Country Names
Rhett Out Bud	Country Specific
Relational Operator	General
Reverse Osmose	General
Rising Order	General
Reverse Osmosized	General
Rubery Owen	General
Repair Order	General
Relay Operator	General
Right On	General
Riddle Obsessed	General
Restricting Oxide	General
Random Object	General
Roof Open	General
Reduced Offset	General
Recruitment Officer	General
Red Outer	General
Responsible Officer	General
risk on	General
Reviewed Original	General
Renewable Obligation	General
Royal Oak	General
Ragnarock online	General
Run on	General
Response Only	General
Requisitioning Objective	General
Rust and Oxidation	General
Romance O	General
RO or	General
Rita Ora	General
Restriction Orifice	General
Requested Off	General
Recycled Organics	General
Representative Office	General
Russian Orphan	Governmental
Roll Over	Governmental
Roll On	Governmental
Run Off	Governmental
Registered Owner	Governmental
Rahva Omakaitse (People’s Home Guard)	Governmental
Restraining Order	Governmental
Repeat Offender (Criminal)	Governmental
Returning Officer	Governmental
Rovigo (Provence)	International
Ragnarok Online	Internet
Resource Operator	Jobs
Routine order	Medical
Rule Out	Medical
Radiation Oncology	Medical
Reproductive Organ	Medical
Radon Occurrence	Medical
Radiation Oncologist	Medical
Reactive Oxygen	Medical
Reflux Oesophagitis	Medical
Relative Odds	Medical
Renal Oncocytoma	Medical
Renal Osteodystrophy	Medical
revenue out turn (!)	Medical
Regular Observation	Medical
Range Officer	Military and Defence
Recruiting Officer	Military and Defence
Rebel Outpost	Military and Defence
Search Radius Rounded To Next Highest Whole Number	Military and Defence
Results Of	Physics Related
Read Only	Physics Related
Romanian	Regional
Regional Openness	Regional
Reverse Osmosis	Science
Readout	Space Science
Receive Only	Space Science
Recovery Operations	Space Science
Repair and Overhaul	Space Science
Radar Operator	Space Science
Recieve Only	Telecommunication