Most common myth about Radiation is that it burns tissues.
Fact: it does not cause skin burning.

In this video Dr. Belliappa, explains the Myths about Radiation Therapy.

Radiation is a major line of treatment along with surgery and chemotherapy.

Radiation therapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses beams of intense energy to kill cancer cells. Radiation therapy most often uses X-rays, but protons or other types of energy also can be used.

Radiation Therapy is major line of management of cancer, which comes to Head & Neck cancer, Brain tumors, Breast malignancy and prostate malignancy these are major areas where radiation has a major role to play. Comparisons to surgical oncology gastrointestinal tumors are taken care by chemotherapy and surgeries.


Dr Belliappa, Sr Consultant – Radiation Oncology (Apollo Hospitals, Bannerghatta Road)
with more than 25 years of experience in this field. He is astute clinician and academician.

Dr Belliappa has presented and published more than 25 national and international papers and is currently involved with an NGO, which promotes cancer education in colleges in Bangalore.


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