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internal radiation
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Nuclear radiation (alpha and beta particles and gamma radiation) resulting from radioactive substances in the body.


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Byline: ANI Washington, March 29 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Navarra Hospital say that high-dosage perioperative brachytherapy can prove very useful in the treatment of head and neck tumours, and for reducing the period of radiation.
Surgery, external-beam radiation therapy, brachytherapy (implanted radiation seeds), and androgen suppression are the primary conventional treatments for prostate cancer at this time.
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