Sentences with phrase «receive radiation»

Objects do not radiate because they receive radiation, they radiate because of their temperature.

For example, road tar surfaces receive radiation (solar spectrum) from incident «sunlight»; some of which is absorbed and some reflected, so the surface warms, and re-radiates in a completely different thermal spectrum that depends on the surface temperature and its spectral emissivity.

In truth, they all thermalise with the atmospheric temperature so don't give off or receive radiation from each other — air is a very poor conductor.

The satellite microwave sounding units (MSU) receive radiation coming from throughout the troposphere.

Patients will receive radiation to the front half of the body once a day for two days (4 Gy per day for a total of 8 Gy) after chemotherapy treatment no. 8.

As of January 1, 2011, the State of California has mandated that all veterinary hospital workers receive radiation safety training.

Prior to starting radiation he had to have CT scan to determine the plan where he would receive his radiation therapy.

Radiation damage has been shown to happen in cancer patients who receive radiation therapy as a form of treatment, though it may also happen if the person is exposed to nuclear power, nuclear fallout from nuclear weapons, and x-ray imaging.

Half of all patients receive radiation therapy.

More than 50 percent of patients with cancer receive radiation therapy as part of their treatment.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, SciLifeLab and Centre for Clinical Research, Västerås have been able to explain why a combination of castration therapy and radiation therapy increases survival rates for patients with prostate cancer, compared to if they only receive radiation therapy.

When these foods are consumed, a person receives much of this dose internally, often a more severe pathway to receive radiation than by external exposure.

Unlike adults with brain cancer, children can not receive radiation therapy, so doctors must rely on medications and other strategies.

One implication is cancer patients with few mutations in their tumors might respond better to PD - 1 inhibitors if they first receive radiation or chemotherapy, because these treatments can create new mutations in tumors.

Oncologists have long known that in rare cases, after patients receive radiation therapy to shrink a tumor, the immune system will mount an aggressive response that wipes out not only the tumor, but metastases throughout the body that hadn't been treated with the radiation.

• White women who died were less likely to have undergone surgery and receive radiation therapy.

We need to determine the best approach to reconstruction for women who receive radiation,» Jagsi says.

Nearly half of all cancer patients receive radiation therapy to curb the growth of malignant cells.

All patients receive radiation and chemotherapy, yet despite the aggressive approach, the regimen fails in about one - third of patients with cervical cancer that has spread beyond the cervix but not outside the pelvis.

In what often must seem like a wicked twist of fate, most patients who receive radiation or chemotherapy to the head and neck develop serious oral lesions.

In the middle of her visits, she would walk over to the Cancer Center, located in the other wing of the hospital, and receive radiation for her breast cancer.

The rats received radiation over their entire bodies for nine hours a day for two years.

This study analyzed preserved tumor samples from 43 prostate cancer patients who later received radiation therapy after rising PSA levels were detected following a radical prostatectomy.

The tumors» recruitment of these inflammatory cells thus enabled them to resist what would otherwise have been a deadly dose of radiation, so that their growth slowed only modestly compared to control mice that had received no radiation.

After eight years, the risk for developing colon cancer was double for women who received radiation compared to those who had not.

Estimated overall survival at five years was 14.5 % higher for patients who received chemotherapy and radiation compared to patients who received radiation alone (86.1 % versus 71.6 %).

While overall rates of reconstruction increased, women who received radiation therapy were less likely to get reconstruction.

Studies have found that women treated with radiation therapy for uterine cancer, like men who received radiation therapy for prostate cancer, have an increased risk of developing bladder cancer later in life.

A new study by UCLA scientists has found that women diagnosed with breast cancer and treated with a one - week regimen of partial breast radiation after the surgical removal of the tumor, or lumpectomy, saw no increase in cancer recurrence or difference in cosmetic outcomes compared to women who received radiation of the entire breast for a period of up to six weeks after surgery.

Chernobyl was directly responsible for at least 56 deaths and as many as 4,000 more, according to the World Health Organization, though other estimates vary, and spread radioactive material as far as the U.K. Three Mile Island has never been conclusively linked to any deaths or health effects, though some individuals may have received radiation doses of as high as 100 millirems.

Toxicity and disease recurrence assessment was conducted weekly while patients received radiation therapy; four months after treatment completion; every three months for one - and - a-half years; every four months between one - and - a-half and three years; every six months in years three to five; and then annually until death.

Another derivative, called Allopurinol, is applied to prevent kidney blockage in gout patients and in cancer patients receiving radiation or chemotherapy.

Overall, 62 % of patients underwent an operation, 15 % received radiation therapy (RT) as their primary therapy, 3 % received both operation and RT, and 18 % did not receive either therapy.

Our radiation oncologists and physicists are dedicated to ensuring that patients receive the very best radiation treatment based on their specific breast cancer diagnosis, recommended dosage, and the targeted body area receiving radiation therapy.

Children in the U.S. who received radiation to treat acne or enlarged tonsils, a common practice before the 1960s, are also at higher risk.

Twenty - three percent of the patients receiving the melatonin were alive one year later, while none who received radiation alone were still alive.

The Earth receives radiation emitted by the sun that is absorbed by the land surface warming.

Dogs will be placed into a group receiving radiation therapy alone or with chemotherapy.

Survival rates at 2 years for patients receiving radiation therapy ranges from 10 - 48 %.

Recently, a median survival time of 7 months was reported for dogs receiving radiation therapy along with chemotherapy; whereas a combination of surgery and chemotherapy showed more encouraging median survival rates of 235 - 366 days with up to 28 % surviving two years after diagnosis.

As with all cancers, especially when cats are receiving radiation or chemotherapy, weight loss can occur.

I'm no atmospheric scientist and haven't really considered the stratospheric cooling issue but, if an increase in the amount of atmospheric CO2 raised the average altitude from which the stratosphere receives radiation in the CO2 bands, wouldn't it receive less radiation in those bands?

Now if the gaz we added has a property of presenting high energy states interacting with the received radiation we can say a bit more.

Neither the former nor the latter is in LTE and the arguments we used are not valid...», applies throughout the entire volume, because the whole of the volume «sees» (receives radiation from and radiates to) both of those non-LTE boundaries.

They should be facing the ground and receiving its radiation, amounting to 2.3 times that coming in from the Sun.

Of course the surface is receiving radiation as well, which is not at all dependent upon the surface temperature but the incoming radiation.

Any body is always radiating, and receiving the radiation from surrounding bodies.

They unknowingly received radiation doses that averaged 0.4 Sv — a collective dose of 4,000 person - Sv.

This study has the potential to reduce the psychological distress patients experience prior to receiving radiation therapy.

Not exact matches

This is roughly 100 times the amount of natural and medical radiation that an average American receives each year.