Internal radiation therapy is used for some cancers of the head, neck, thyroid, breast, female reproductive system, and prostate
The advantage of internal radiation therapy is that it concentrates the radiation near the cancer and lessens the chance of damage to normal cells
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Patients receiving internal radiation therapy do become temporarily radioactive
Radiation therapy is delivered via external radiation or via internal radiation therapy (the implantation/injection of radioactive substances).
It is sometimes called radiation therapy, radiation therapy, cobalt therapy, electron beam therapy, or irradiation
shock therapy
Internal radiation therapy
In internal radiation therapy a source of radioactivity is surgically placed inside the body near the cancer
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