{"id":9200,"date":"2021-02-09T10:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=9200"},"modified":"2021-02-09T10:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T17:30:13","slug":"radiation-oncology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/health-medicine\/radiation-oncology\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiation Oncology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/minimed-cancer-radiotherapy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/series\/widescreen\/1135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a> Cancer treatments are advancing at an astounding pace, with newer therapies providing better outcomes, longer life, and greater chance for cure. Radiation therapy uses carefully targeted doses of high-energy radiation to kill cancer cells without damaging the surrounding healthy tissue. The goal is to use high-dose X-rays to remove the cancer, keep it from spreading, or improve patients&#8217; quality of life by relieving pain and other symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Radiation therapy plays an essential role in the treatment of many cancers and innovations in radiation treatments have similarly led to improved outcomes in both survival and quality of life. <\/p>\n<p>In this series, UCSF radiation oncologists explore the latest advances in the science, technology, and treatment of cancer using modern radiation therapy.<\/p>\n<p>Browse more programs in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/minimed-cancer-radiotherapy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Innovations In Cancer Treatment: Radiation Therapy in the Modern Era<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer treatments are advancing at an astounding pace, with newer therapies providing better outcomes, longer life, and greater chance for cure. Radiation therapy uses carefully targeted doses of high-energy radiation to kill cancer cells without damaging the surrounding healthy tissue. The goal is to use high-dose X-rays to remove the cancer, keep it from spreading, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[781,22,1478],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}