Often, the treatment is given over several different angles in order to deliver the maximum amount of radiation to the tumor and the minimum amount to normal tissues. Your doctors and nurses will help you with these. The radiation passes through your body and does not remain in you. You are not radioactive. Only the body part in the field of radiation is affected.
Normal cells exposed to radiation begin to repair themselves hours after exposure.
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