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therapy
(redirected from radiation therapy)

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LANCASTER - Cancer patients who have been traveling to the San Fernando Valley to undergo radiation therapy can now receive those services in Lancaster at a local cancer center.
Radiation therapy is an important treatment for many cancers, but in some people it causes serious delayed side effects, after it's too late to adjust the amount of radiation used.
They point out that failure of radiation therapy to arrest growth of NF2 acoustic tumors is 24% and of non-NF2 tumors, 12%.
 
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