What is radiation and chemotherapy?
Radiation and chemotherapy are two forms of treatment options used to treat various types of cancer, with or without surgical interventions. Radiation therapy is used for local control of the disease. It uses a directed and controlled beam of radiation to treat the tissue surrounding the surgical site to destroy and leftover cancer cells that may remain. Chemotherapy is used for distant disease control. It is a medication injected into the blood stream (and sometimes administered by mouth) to treat/destroy cancer cells that may have traveled through the system to remote parts of the body. Sometimes only one of these treatments is used, sometimes they are used together, and sometimes patients do not need either one.
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