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Radiation Therapy

What is radiation therapy?

Radiation therapy is a treatment. It uses high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells and stop them from spreading. It may also be used for easing cancer symptoms. Radiation therapy may damage healthy cells. They can usually repair themselves more easily than cancer cells.

You may need days or weeks of treatment before the radiation starts killing cancer cells. But cancer cells should keep dying for weeks or months after your treatment ends.

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  1. Radiation Therapy (National Library of Medicine)  
    What is radiation therapy? Radiation therapy is a cancer treatment. It uses high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells and stop them from spreading. It ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/radiationtherapy.html - Health Topics
  2. Radiation therapy 
    Radiation therapy uses high-powered radiation (such as x-rays or gamma rays), particles, or radioactive seeds to kill cancer cells.
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001918.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  3. Whole breast radiation therapy 
    Whole breast radiation therapy uses high-powered x-rays to kill breast cancer cells. With this type of directed radiation therapy, the ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007691.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  4. Partial breast brachytherapy 
    ... radiation is most harmful to quickly growing cells, radiation therapy damages cancer cells more easily than normal cells. ... Brachytherapy delivers radiation therapy directly to where cancer ... are located. It may involve placing a radioactive source into ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007692.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  5. Partial breast radiation therapy - external beam 
    External beam partial breast radiation therapy uses high-powered x-rays to kill breast cancer cells. This type of treatment does not target the entire breast, ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007693.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  6. Oral mucositis - self-care 
    ... is tissue swelling and irritation in the mouth. Radiation therapy or chemotherapy may cause mucositis. Follow your health ... takes 2 to 4 weeks. Mucositis caused by radiation therapy usually lasts 6 to 8 weeks, depending on ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000047.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  7. Radiation therapy - questions to ask your doctor 
    You are having radiation therapy . This is a type of treatment that uses high-powered x-rays or subatomic particles to kill cancer cells. ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000187.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  8. Proton therapy 
    Most types of radiation therapy use x-rays to destroy cancer cells. Proton therapy uses a beam of special particles called protons. Proton beams ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007281.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  9. Radiation Therapy Side Effects (American Cancer Society)  
    American Cancer Society ... Radiation Therapy/Related Issues ... Radiation Therapy ... Radiation therapy can cause different side effects depending on what area of the ...
    https://www.cancer.org/.../effects-on-different-parts-of-body.html - External Health Links
  10. How Radiation Therapy Is Used to Treat Cancer Easy-to-Read (American Cancer Society)  
    American Cancer Society ... Radiation Therapy/Start Here ... Radiation Therapy ... Easy-to-Read ... Radiation therapy damages the DNA inside cancer cells causing them to ...
    https://www.cancer.org/.../treatment-types/radiation/basics.html - External Health Links
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