Treating anal or rectal cancer with radiotherapy

Your doctor has proposed radiotherapy to treat anal or rectal cancer. This fact sheet describes this treatment and the precautions to take so that everything goes as smoothly as possible.

Treatments and surgical operations , Cancer, Oncology, Colorectal cancer

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Treating anal or rectal cancer with radiotherapy

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BCG in the bladder to treat cancer

Treating a brain tumour with stereotactic radiotherapy

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