What is the difference between the types of radiation that cause cancer and the types of radiation used to treat cancer?
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as someone in his early 40’s going through chemo, i was told chemo was better for me than radio due to my age, as radiation, which good at killing cancer, comes itself with a cancer risk 15 years down the road. As I am still young (doctors words, not mine), long term it is better for me to do chemo as first attempt. If I was 85, it would be a different conversation.
Radiation treatment is also easier to take, thus easier for the more fragile to be treater.
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