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 a number of other people have said, there’s nothing inherent to radiation that makes it cure or cause cancer, only where it is applied.
However, one type of radiation that generally is only used to treat cancer and almost never causes it is proton radiation. This isn’t because the radiation isn’t harmful in the wrong place, but humans are unlikely to encounter it outside of proton therapy.
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