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   Experimental cancer treatment

   These studies received attention in the media, and some doctors began controversially using the chemical off-label. ... Most oncologists have a belief that a diet alone cannot treat cancer.
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   Chemotherapy

   As a result, many other drugs have been developed to treat cancer, and drug development since then has exploded into a multibillion-dollar industry.
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   Radiation therapy

   The concept of therapeutic radiation was invented by German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen when he discovered that the x-ray was a powerful and effective tool with which to treat cancer. ... Reprocessed uranium • Isotopes of plutonium · Minor actinide · Fission product (LLFP) · Activation product
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   Caesium

   Radioactive isotopes of caesium are used in the medical field to treat certain types of cancer.
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   Prostate cancer

   4.9 patients must be treated for one to benefit (number needed to treat = 4.9). ... ↑ PreventProstateCancer.info: A Brief Overview of Prostate Cancer
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   Copper

   The other 27 isotopes are radioactive and do not occur naturally. ... When complexed with a chelate it can be used to treat cancer through radiation therapy.
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   National Research Universal Reactor

   Not all isotopes are stable. ... Cobalt-60 from NRU is used in Radiation therapy machines that treat cancer in 15 million patients in 80 counties each year.
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   Stem cell treatments

   For over 30 years, bone marrow, and more recently, umbilical cord blood stem cells have been used to treat cancer patients with conditions such as leukemia and lymphoma.
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   Nanomedicine

   A schematic illustration showing how nanoparticles or other cancer drugs might be used to treat cancer.
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    Radiation poisoning

    Since tumors grow by abnormally rapid cell division, the ability of radiation to disturb cell division is also used to treat cancer (see radiotherapy), and low levels of ionizing radiation have been claimed to lower one's risk of cancer (see hormesis). ... Of the 100 million curies (4 exabecquerels) of radioactive material, the short lived radioactive isotopes such as 131I Chernobyl released were initially the most dangerous.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Experimental cancer treatment,
• Chemotherapy,
• Radiation therapy,
• Caesium,
• Prostate cancer,
• Copper,
• National Research Universal Reactor,
• Stem cell treatments,
• Nanomedicine,
• Radiation poisoning