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Episode 121: Therac-25

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The Side Effects of Radiation Treatments

When radio therapy is for we're only talking about a very small volume of tissue being targeted. So while higher intensive amounts of radiation are used is as an enormous. Only being applied to a very small amount of total body tissue and the adverse effects are limited. It's not to sort of say it's completely eradicated because it's not an incancer that treated a bit of a therapy, which is will often have temporary effects in terms of immunosuppression and can get secondary cancers as a result. There's no pleasant radiation sickness, obviously, but you read like accounts of some of these things and like this will come up when you do shin over as well.

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