Tag: radiation fibrosis

Radiation Fibrosis Syndrome: What It Is and How to Treat It

Radiation therapy, like surgery and chemotherapy, is a mainstay of cancer treatment. The reason radiation is used to treat cancer is that it is usually toxic to the fast growing cancer cells while supposedly having little adverse effects on the slow growing and relatively radiation resistant normal body cells. Unfortunately, normal cells are often affected…

A Cancer Survivor Shares: Teresa’s Story

I walk into the building past the doorman, who no longer asks me for my identification. I am a familiar face. We both know my destination. It is always the same: the fifth floor. I give wave and say “Dr. Stubblefield of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Rehabilitation Center.” The doorman nods his head with a slight smile…