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Alexandra [31]
3 years ago
12

How do the treatments for cancer work, and why can it sometimes make people sick or weak to have them?

Biology
1 answer:
11111nata11111 [884]3 years ago
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Answer:

Most treatments for cancer use radiation to target the cancerous cells (tumor) and blast radiation in that direction. Because we cannot control the radius of the radiation, other cells are also blasted with radiation and causes sickness in cancer patients.

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