What to Expect: Radiation therapy
By Dr. Samuel Shah, MD · · Oncology
Patients often ask us about radiation therapy. Here is what our Oncology clinicians want you to know.
About this topic
Topic: radiation therapy. Treatment of a disease by means of exposure of the target or the whole body to radiation. Radiation therapy is often used as part of curative therapy and occasionally as a component of palliative treatment for cancer. Other uses include total body irradiation prior to transplantation.
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