Treating lung cancer with radiation therapy

Your doctor has suggested radiation therapy to treat lung cancer. Here’s what you need to know about this treatment and the precautions to be taken so that everything goes as smoothly as possible.

Treatments and surgical operations , Cancer, Oncology, Lung cancer

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Traiter un cancer du poumon par la radiothérapie

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