External Beam Radiation Therapy: (You may see this written dow External beam radiation therapy comes from a machine that aims radi around you, sending radiation to a specific part of your body from man External beam radiation therapy is a local treatment, which means it tr your lung, DXT will target your lung tumour and not your whole body. Radiotherapy may be given after surgery to kill any cancer cells that m DXT may also be used as a palliative (non-curative) treatment for pain disseminated (spread throughout the skeleton). Internal Radiation Therapies: Internal radiation therapy is a treatment in which a source of radiation Internal radiation therapy with a solid source is called brachytherapy. I radiation source are placed in your body, in or near the tumour. Like e and treats only a specific part of your body. It may be used to treat hig Internal radiation therapy with a liquid source is called systemic therap throughout your body, seeking out and killing cancer cells. You receive IV line, or by injection. SIRT (Selective Internal Radiation Therapy) Is not currently available on the NHS for neuroendocrine cancer - exce SIRT is a way of using radiotherapy to control cancers in the liver that The procedure involves the injection of tiny radioactive beads (called m liver. The beads then get stuck in the small blood vessels in and aroun directly to the tumour, to destroy the cancer cells.
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