Question: Can Radiotherapy become more advanced to make it more affective?

Leila Nichol answered on 12 Mar 2013:

Radiotherapy is improving all the time! Making the delivery better, but also seeing exactly where the tumour is are major areas of development. This can involve more scans on-treatment, measuring the breathing pattern, implanting markers. Other important areas are finding optimum radiation doses, and avoiding treating any healthy tissue you don’t need to. Radiotherapy hasn’t been around relatively long and has come on leaps and bounds, and it will continue like this for a while to come yet!