Radiation given to the entire body.
Twice-daily whole-body radiation treatments that are done as part of conditioning.
Radiation aimed at the entire body to destroy cancer cells. Often used in Bone Marrow transplants possibly with chemotherapy to destroy cancer (which also destroys the immune system's ability to make blood cells hence the transplant of cells back into the patient).
Radiotherapy often given in several doses prior to bone marrow transplantation with the aim of killing residual tumor cells in the patient. It is used in conjunction with high dose anti-cancer drugs. The procedure.
Unlike radiation for tumors where the goal is to target a specific area, TBI is aimed at the whole body to get all the bone marrow cells.
Radiation aimed at the entire body to destroy cancer cells. This procedure is often used in bone marrow transplants.
a type of irradiation delivered to the entire body.
Radiation is sometimes used to kill bone marrow cells, before a bone marrow transplant. This type of radiotherapy procedure is called TBI. See TBI section.
Total Body Irradiation (TBI) is a radiotherapy technique used to ablate the bone marrow and immune system prior to bone marrow transplantation or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation. It may be used as part of high-dose treatment of some leukaemias and lymphomas. The aim of this type of ablative therapy is to prevent rejection of the transplanted cells.
