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Supposing radiation causes cancer, will that cancer be treated with more radiation?

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Maybe: Sounds paradoxical, doesn't it? But it works. Radiation damages the genome and the mutations may eventually give rise to a cancer. Big doses simply cause cells of all kinds to die off, many cancers being vulnerable. The radiation-induced cancers are most often sarcomas or leukemias; a sarcoma may be palliated by a big dose of radiation (it's actually more toxic to fully-developed cancer cell.

Answered 1/27/2014

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