What is Radiotherapy

This section looks at how different types of radiotherapy can treat cancer patients. You can also learn more about some of the wording used around radiotherapy. Radiotherapy can be very technical and complicated, so we have put the most important information at the top of each page.
An overview of radiotherapy: how it works and how it might help you.
An overview of internal radiotherapy and how it works.
Learn more about this common type of radiotherapy: how it works and the different stages for each patient.
Particle beam therapy is a type of external beam radiotherapy.
There are lots of different radiotherapy techniques and methods of treatment in use and the language isn’t always straightforward.

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