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A linear accelerator is one of several technologies Mayo Clinic radiation oncologists use to provide top-of-the-line cancer care.
Mayo Clinic is a leader in treating cancer with state-of-the-art radiation therapy. High levels of radiation can kill cells or keep them from growing and dividing.
Radiation therapy is a useful tool for treating cancer because cancer cells are growing in the body more rapidly than many normal cells around them, and radiation therapy preferentially treats more rapidly dividing cells. Radiation therapy effectively treats many kinds of cancers.
Information about cancers and cancer treatments, including:
Scientists, physicians and clinical researchers in the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center bring new treatments to patients through radiation therapy clinical trials.
"The significance of an ailment should not be measured by the inconvenience it causes at the time, but by what may come of it four or five years afterward."
– Charles H. Mayo, M.D.
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A tongue tumor threatened to cut short this volunteer firefighter's life, but surgery and radiation put out the cancer's flames.
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Mayo Clinic physicians use innovative approaches to radiation therapy to treat cancer.
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