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x-ray therapy

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x-ray therapy [′eks ‚rā ‚ther·ə·pē]
(medicine)
Medical treatment by controlled application of x-rays; a type of radiotherapy.


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Given intravenously to a patient, texaphyrin boosts the effectiveness of X-ray therapy and makes small clusters of cancer cells easier to see on magnetic resonance images.
Proton radiation reduces both the incidence and severity of pulmonary injury in comparison to treatment plans relying on traditional X-ray therapy," said Bush, citing an American Journal of Roentgenology article supporting the use of protons in treating lung cancer.
Nurit Kalderon, now at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, developed the idea of X-ray therapy for spinal cord injuries while at Rockefeller University, also in New York.
 
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