Guide Note: Radiation Therapy is a treatment doctors have patients do as a way of shrinking tumors.
Fast Facts:
- Also called radiotherapy or X-ray therapy
- Used to fight many types of cancer
- Used to treat some noncancerous (benign) tumors
- Will destroy cells in the path of the radiation beam
- Medical use of ionizing radiation as part of cancer treatment
- Uses beams of high-energy particles, or waves
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Radiation Therapy program.