Cancer Treatments Redefined To Reduce Potential Nerve Damage

Friday, December 19, 2008 - 20:35 in Health & Medicine

While radiation treatments deliver precise doses of high-energy X-rays to stop cancer cells from spreading or to shrink tumors, oncologists have become increasingly concerned about inadvertent exposures during head and neck cancer treatments to nerves responsible for upper body mobility.

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