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Radiation Therapy and Dry Mouth and Problem Sneezing

The discovery could change the way radiation therapy is given. And it could also help to explain why these symptoms of dry mouth and problem swallowing can often be seen by people that undergo radio therapy. When you have rad therape radiation is beamed into your body, and often it's very deliberately designed to converge in a particular way. But if you don't know that the glands exist, you don't know to void them. So now these glands have been found, or they've been posited to exist, it means that people administering radiotherapy can try to avoid them in he future,. hopefully avoid these symptoms for those patients.

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