wn and abbreviated to RT or DXT) iation at your cancer. The machine does not touch you, but can move ny directions. reats a specific part of your body. For example, if you have cancer in
might remain at the margins of or original site of your tumour. nful bone secondaries – if isolated in specific spots, rather than
is put inside your body. The radiation source can be solid or liquid. In this type of treatment, seeds, ribbons, or capsules that contain a external beam radiation therapy, brachytherapy is a local treatment gh-grade cancers of the prostate gland or female reproductive system. py. Systemic means that the treatment travels in the blood to tissues e systemic radiation therapy by swallowing it, or through a vein via an
ept within a clinical trial. can’t be removed with surgery.
microspheres) into a blood vessel (artery) that takes blood into your nd the cancer, blocking further blood supply and delivering radiation
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