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Is radiation therapy used to cure liver cancer?
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Sometimes: If the cancer is from the liver cure is only possible by surgery. If the cancer has spread to the liver and there is only one spot of metastasis then radiosurgery (a type of radiation and not surgery) can be used in an attempt to cure the patient. In that case it depends on the size of the lesion and its location in the liver.
Answered 7/20/2012
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Yes: High dose targeted radiation known as stereotactic body radiotherapy (sbrt) has shown to be successful in treating liver cancer.
Answered 10/23/2012
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