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==<span class="mw-collapsible-headline">Interventional Procedures</span>== <div id="collapse02" class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"> <div class="mw-collapsible-toggle"> <div class="mw-collapsible-toggle-row"> </div> </div><br /> <div class="mw-collapsible-content">
Interventional procedures using ionising radiation have revolutionised medicine in the past few decades for therapy and palliation, resulting in more patients being offered treatments that would not have been possible before with more invasive open surgery. The vast majority of interventional procedures are performed as “minimal invasive percutaneous therapies”.
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Radiation therapy utilizes ionizing radiation to treat malignant and benign diseases. It has become a standard of care for treating many types of cancer. Current medical practice uses radiation therapy in about half of all newly diagnosed cancer cases. Radiation therapy works by exploiting radiobiological differences between cancer and normal cells/tissues, and by depositing radiation dose in cancer tumours while keeping doses to surrounding normal tissues below damaging thresholds as much as possible.
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==<span class="mw-collapsible-headline">Nuclear Medicine</span>==