Assertion: radiation | /r/CapableOf | focus on the tumor
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text: (which may help to relieve ; or it may be done before surgery, to convert certain patients from unresectable to resectable status) relative safety for the patient (radiation can be delivered from outside of the body and focused on the tumor, is painless, and generally does not require anesthesia)
text: This allows the radiation to be concentrated on the tumor with less damage to nearby normal tissues.
text: Each individual beam is of relatively low intensity, so the radiation has little effect on intervening brain tissue and is concentrated only at the tumor itself.
text: for the patient (radiation can be delivered from outside of the body and focused on the tumor, is painless, and generally does not require anesthesia) synergy with systemic therapy (i.e. the ability to kill more cells together than either therapy could do alone)
text: This allows the radiation to be concentrated on the tumor with less damage to nearby normal tissues.