As I understand, radiation therapy is basically directing highly concentrated x-rays/gamma radiation to kill tumors/cancer cells. I don’t quite get how, in this process of “shooting” high energy beams at the tumor, the skin/muscle cells don’t get damaged?
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Adjusting the beam. Energy gets released at different depths and peaks a certain distance into the tissue. Beam could travel all the way past you and hardly do anything but add another CM of skin and it could all be dumped right into it. Combine that with the other things states here and it is pretty precise
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