What is radiation therapy?
- One of the most common
treatments for cancer
- More than half of people with
cancer get radiation therapy
- Sometimes, radiation therapy
is the only cancer treatment needed
- "The use of ionizing
radiation in the treatment of cancer and some
diseases of bone marrow and blood."
- What's used: "high energy
particles or waves"
- X-rays
- Gamma rays
- electron beams
- protons
- Radiation Treatment
- Radiotherapy
- Irradiation
- X-ray Therapy
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