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Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are both traditional methods. What is the difference?
Radiotherapy refers to killing cancer cells with radiation first, eliminating tumors, prolonging the survival time of patients and improving the quality of life. Radiotherapy is a local treatment with relatively few side effects. According to the patient's condition, radiotherapy can be used alone or in combination with chemotherapy. It lasts for a few minutes every day for about 40 days, depending on the patient's condition. The side effects of radiotherapy are less and lighter than chemotherapy, mainly fatigue, laryngeal edema, cough, fever, chest pain, stomach discomfort and so on. Similarly, doctors will take a series of measures to prevent these side effects.
The difference between chemotherapy and radiotherapy:
(1) Scope of action: radiotherapy is local and chemotherapy is systemic.
(2) Time: radiotherapy for more than a few minutes and chemotherapy for several hours.
(3) Administration mode: radiotherapy is physical therapy and radiation irradiation; Chemotherapy is oral or drip, etc.
(4) Side effects: As for which is more painful, radiotherapy or chemotherapy, this is not absolute. But relatively speaking, radiotherapy is a local pain, and chemotherapy has more systemic pain, so chemotherapy is more painful than radiotherapy.
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