Vitamin E, Pentoxifylline, and Radiation FibrosisGRACE :: Radiation Oncology

Radiation therapy is often a component of care for patients with cancer. While radiation has great capability to kill cancer, side effects are possible. Fortunately, dramatic strides have been made in improving radiation treatment over the last few decades – modern computing and technology allow focused delivery of high radiation doses to tumors with four dimensional image guidance, dramatically limiting radiation dose to normal, healthy structures in the body. (For those of you wondering – the “fourth dimension” is that of time – for example, localizing a tumor in three dimensions, but also tracking through space as it moves over time.)