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    best. Sometimes this procedure does not work, where integrated with chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy is needed. (West, 2011) Another process would be the radiation treatment usually used as preventative measure to slow the growth process and brachytherapy is commonly used. Most of the time 70% patient resort to this process as the best way

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    treatment. The radiation might be conveyed by a machine outside the body (outer pillar radiation treatment), or it might originate from radioactive material set in the body in proximity to tumor cells (inward radiation treatment, likewise called brachytherapy). Systemic radiation treatment utilizes radioactive substances, for example, radioactive iodine, that go in the blood to execute tumor cells. About portion of all malignancy patients get some sort of radiation treatment at some point throughout

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    Cancer is an incurable and unpredictable disease that, if left untreated, will likely result in death for the men, women, and children who must fight it. Sadly, approximately 36% of people will develop cancer during their lifetime, and of that percentage, fewer than 15% will survive, according to the National Cancer Institute. Along with surgery and chemotherapy, radiation is one of the few known methods for treating cancer, but it does not come without harmful side effects. While radiation therapy

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