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Is radiotherapy painful? how is it performed?
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No: This must not be for you, but someone else. Radiotherapy is for cancer treatment , unless you are referring to something else. Sometimes electro surgery is referred to a radiotherapy and that would be just using an electical instuement to cut. It wouldn't hurt if numbed up. Now the underlying condition might cause pain and the consequences of the treatment might cause complications that could
Answered 8/31/2014
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