No harm, but there are certain contraindications.
The use of high-frequency electric current to make the role of internal heat to achieve the purpose of treatment, also known as radiotherapy.
Baking electricity in medicine is light therapy, general baking electricity is not harmful to the body, baking electricity is similar to ordinary heat therapy, mainly through the light to help patients to improve the local pain, discomfort, etc., the role of the mechanism is to improve blood circulation, reduce the aggregation of pain-causing substances.
Of course, there are certain contraindications to baking electricity, such as baking electricity in or around the site of a metal foreign body, patients allergic to light, metal internal fixation sites, etc., which are not suitable. In the process of baking electricity is also prone to scalding, for patients with sensory impairment, diabetic patients should pay attention to control the temperature and distance of the baking electricity to avoid adverse events.
The efficacy of baking electricity:
The efficacy of radiation therapy depends on the radiation sensitivity, different tissues and organs as well as a variety of tumor tissues in the irradiation of the degree of response to the emergence of changes vary. Radiation sensitivity is related to the proliferation cycle of tumor cells and pathological grading, i.e., actively proliferating cells are more sensitive than non-proliferating cells, and the higher the degree of cell differentiation, the lower the radiation sensitivity, and the higher the opposite.
In addition, the oxygen content of the tumor cells directly affects the radiosensitivity, for example, early tumor volume is small, good blood flow, and the efficacy is good when there are few oxygen-depleted cells, while the late tumor volume is large, the intra-tumoral blood flow is poor, and there is even necrosis in the center, which means that the radiosensitivity is low.
Squamous carcinoma growing locally has better blood circulation and higher sensitivity than tumors in buttocks and limbs; when the tumor is locally combined with infection and has poor blood circulation (more oxygen-depleted cells), the radiosensitivity decreases.
Reference: Baidu encyclopedia-radiotherapy