Snapshot of International Radıotherapy Center: Single Center Experience

Abstract

Cancer can become anywhere in the human body almost including trillions of cells. Cancerous tumors spread or invade into the tissues to form new tumors that named as the process of metastasis. Radiation therapy (RT) was first used to treat cancer over a hundred years ago. The progress has been made to improve the effectiveness of this awesome modality and minimize side effects. RT also has been used with surgery, chemotherapy or immunotherapy in combined modality approaches for numerous malignancies to maximize tumor control while minimizing toxicity and preserving the organs and tissues. We intend to present our patient population whom delivering radiotherapy in our radiotherapy center. The data includes the patients who still delivering radiotherapy, initial or last day of radiotherapy. This article is about a snapshot of a treated patient population in one day at our center. Mean KPS (Karnofsky Performance Score) was 90 (70-100). 2 patients were in stage 1 (2%), 25 (28%) were in stage 2, 35 (39%) wee in stage 3 and remaining 23 (26%) were in stage 4. 4 (5%) of all were benign.