Why/how does radiation therapy not just cause more cancer?

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Isn’t radiation a known way to damage cells and increase the potential for cancer?

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It can, however the cancer one has is much more of a danger than the chance of a new cancer. And chemo drugs have a higher chance of giving one a secondary cancer than the radiation does.

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