RADIOTHERAPY

     

      Nowadays, the new technology does not strange to us anymore. Since we are already in 21 Century the new technology keeps on and on especially the technology that has been used in medical science to treat numerous of disease such as radiotherapy. Radiotherapy or radiation therapy is a new advanced technology that's been used in cancer and tumour disease treatment. Radiotherapy used high energy ray to destroy and treat the cancer tissue by exposing that tissue to the ray. This may be used with other treatment such as surgery and chemotherapy.

      Radiotherapy has been discovered by a Germany physician named Wilhem Rothgen which is the first person discovered the x-ray. It's been used by another physician to diagnose broken legs and allocated the foreign substance in the body on certain part. Following year in 1896, the other scientist Antoine-Henri Becquerel discovered a certain element called radioactivity that spontaneously emitted ray. After that, Becquerel has collaborated with Pierre and Marie Curie to find more about the element of radioactive.

      Finally, they have discovered the new radioactive which is radium and later on they found that radium can be used to kill the cancer cells. Emil Grubbe is a student doctor in Chicago became a first person that has been used x-rays radiation to cure the cancer.