How Radiotherapy works resulting in tissue conservation

Radiotherapy can treat a mixed population of normal cells and tumour cells, kill the tumour cells but leave the normal cells unharmed. See lip cancer example below.

Large neglected cSCC of Lip
Six months after Radiotherapy alone
No surgery was used

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