People still imagine radiation like it used to be 20 years…

People still imagine radiation like it used to be 20 years ago, big machines, hair loss, burns, and you become radioactive in the end. Even till today, I still get questions only regarding this. I feel that the major side effect of radiation is the fear of not knowing anything, and that is the major side effect. Other side effects come later on, this comes at the very beginning. Modern day radiation treatment is not like that at all. It's like a sniper taking a shot. So if your tumor is around 2 to 3 cm, what we do is we shape the radiation beams according to the tumor in 3D. We have the tumor mapped in 3D on the scans, and there's a lot of process behind it. Then we shape the radiation beams exactly according to that tumor. We can see the tumor every day on CT, and