Radiation therapy takes advantage of cancer's poor DNA repair abilities – an oncologist and physicist explain how
Behzad Ebrahimi, University of Chicago and Mark Korpics, University of Chicago, The Conversation
Posted 1/2/24
Nearly half of all cancer patients undergo radiation therapy as part of their care. Ionizing radiation, or the emission of high-energy waves or particles, works as a therapy by damaging a cancer cell’s DNA. …
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