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Radiotherapy| may be used alone, instead of surgery|. It can also be used after an operation, to destroy small areas of cancer that could not be removed by the surgery.
It may also be given in combination with chemotherapy|, which is known as chemo-radiotherapy.
Radiotherapy can be given in one of two ways:
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