Radiotherapy – side effects

Early / acute:

  • nausea and vomiting
  • marrow suppression
  • gastrointestinal ulceration

Late:

  • fibrosis – scarring, especially soft-tissue and lung
  • coronary artery disease
  • bone marrow fibrosis
  • pancytopenia
  • tumours / malignancy

Serious: from 6 weeks to a few months

  • radiation myelitis
  • pneumonitis
  • pericarditis (rare)

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