Argumentative Essay On Radiation Therapy

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A number of incidents where operator error as well as hardware and software problems have resulted in patients receiving incorrect radiotherapy doses that have resulted in patient injuries and sometimes death. Recent years, the famous case in radiation treatment is the fatal overdose doses left the patient, Scott Jerome-Parks, deaf, struggling to see, unable to swallow, burned, with his teeth falling out, with ulcers in his mouth and throat, nauseated, in severe pain and finally unable to breathe at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan. Jerome-Parks, with his tongue cancer, received radiation therapy in the St. Vincent’s hospital from March 2005. The cause of the cancer might be considered the toxic dust formed in the collapse of the