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Can you tell me about radiation used for in cancer and what is chemo used for in cancer?
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Treatments: Chemotherapy is usually an injection or pill that goes through the whole body to hope kill and/or slow down the growth if cancer cells wherever they might be. Radiation is usually a focused treatment given to a particular tumor or region of the body either by a machine that aims one to hundreds of beams at the treat spit or by implanting radioactive pellets near or within the tumor.
Answered 3/27/2014
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