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The words “radiation” and “chemotherapy” strike fear in the hearts of most cancer patients because they conjure up images of the devastating side effects associated with them. Consequently, when a cancer patient’s doctor recommends chemotherapy or radiation, the patient should get two or three different opinions before consenting to the therapy.

The goal of radiation therapy is to kill cancer cells while reducing damage to accompanying normal tissues.
Cancer cells are usually more sensitive to radiation than adjacent normal cells. We also can apply the radiation to other types of cancers to make the tumors shrink and create an opportunity for the immune system to deal with fewer surviving tumor cells.
At RCC we use radiation and chemotherapy sparingly to maximize the benefits and minimize the side effects, and we detoxify the body immediately after each treatment by using specific techniques to remove radiation and chemotherapy from the system.
Radiation is also eliminated from the bloodstream by using an intravenous infusion. At the same time that we use radiation, we allow the patient to breathe oxygen. This enhances the action of the radiation on the tumor.

We have to accept radiation therapy as an approach to destroy cancer. From a doctor’s perspective, we need to explain to patients very honestly the effects; that through the use of radiation we are going to destroy a lot of proteins. The dead proteins will be floating in the patient’s bloodstream and could create additional problems unless they are quickly removed. That’s why the detoxification programs we use at RCC are so important in supporting the patient to eliminate dead cancer cells and proteins.

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