How can radiation cause- and cure- cancer cells?

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I hope this question makes sense. I read where high levels of radiation exposure can cause cancer, but if that is the case, how does radiation treatments cure cancer? Thank you for reading.

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Imagine radiation is like a gun. It’s shooting bullets into your DNA. A few shots will leave your cells alive, but they’re not going to be working right. Maybe they still die, but maybe those bullets hit the right few spots to make it do something it wasn’t originally intended to do. But if you shoot it a lot more times, then it’s going to be dead on the floor.

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