The treatment is painless and usually takes a few minutes, but because the patient's position is very important, pre-treatment itself may be more or less long.

Plus you'll be relaxed and easier it is to reach the position sought. The medical staff will inform you during treatment.

The body part that must be addressed is dévêtue, like what happens for a traditional radiography. The rest of the body is shielded from radiation emitted by the device, a linear particle accelerator, using caches lead.
The contact reassuring medical staff

You will remain in permanent contact with the nursing staff through a microphone and the processing room is illuminated. Eye contact is made through a window or through a system of video surveillance.

The radiotherapy machine is usually fixed, but it may also be able to turn around the patient for him to administer treatment in several directions.

The noise and the machine can be impressive, but before the first meeting, the radiation reassure you on what you can see or hear during your treatment.

Adverse
The aim is to affect the cancer cells, but it is possible that healthy tissue close to be achieved, resulting in side effects.

These consequences of treatment with radiotherapy depend on the radiation dose administered, location of the tumor and reactions of your body, they vary widely from one person to another.

Anaemia
Radiation can affect bone marrow cells that produce blood cells. These problems are usually linked to treatments carried out over a large area or affect the bones of legs, chest, abdomen or pelvis.

If treatment leads to a decrease in your red blood cells (anemia), a transfusion or treatment with the érythropoiétine will overcome this deficiency and should limit the fatigue that you suffer.

Fatigue and anxiety
The fatigue and headaches are very common, so you have to be very careful not to get overworked and relax as much as your body prompted. Being under treatment for cancer can be a source of anxiety, fatigue and accumulate, you can have depressive tendencies. If so, your entourage will have to make sure you support.

Weight loss
The radiation can also affect the membranes of the mouth, trachea or the intestinal wall. The gene for swallowing, nausea, altered taste and diarrhea can lead to weight loss.

If you have trouble you feed it appropriate to inform the medical team responsible for your treatment. Drugs treating nausea and limiting ulceration of the intestines are available

Sexuality
If the write-offs made in the pelvic area, they could affect your sexuality.

Skin reactions
If the skin around the treated area this redness, itching or other problems, talk to your radiation.

If the marks determining the treatment area disappear, do not try to remake yourself, but tell your radiation.

Hair Loss
The hair loss is that if radiation are directed towards the head. In most cases, the hair will push at the end of treatment, although this "pushes" also depends on the dose of radiation received.

Generally these side effects will disappear gradually in the weeks following the end of treatment.

Thanks to technological advances, these effects are not a tribute to pay inseparable treatment today, many patients feel no or few of these problems. However, talk with your doctor about the possible reactions to treatment before radiotherapy, you will help you prepare if you have to be confronted.