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Is there a difference between radiation and chemotherapy?
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Yes: Radiation delivers treatment to where the beam is delivered. So if you radiate the arm, the arm is all that is treated. Chemotherapy goes wherever blood goes. Hope this helps.
Answered 8/21/2013
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