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Radiation therapy has been used for the treatment of cancer since 1896
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It still wasn't fully open to anyone but it was to about half of the people.
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Doctors found out that is was better to give more treatments of a smaller dose.
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Radiology Therapy started to become a clinical routine.
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The first person died from radiation poisoning from drinking water.
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The doctors hadn't had much success and the probability of the treatment working dropped greatly.
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The linear accelerator was introduced. This machine greatly increases the kinetic energy of charges subatomic particles.
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By the end of the 20th century, radiology had come to encompass a broad range of methods for visualizing the interior of the body,
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In the past ten years, there have been many breakthroughs and improvements in the research. They have developed very much new technology.
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An experimental approach to treating breast cancer combines surgery and radiation therapy in one appointment, instead of multiple appointments over the course of several weeks. Article Published in 2015
