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Radiotherapy vs Hadrontherapy - What's the difference?

radiotherapy | hadrontherapy |

As nouns the difference between radiotherapy and hadrontherapy

is that radiotherapy is the therapeutic use of ionizing radiation, almost exclusively used for the treatment of malignant disease while hadrontherapy is (medicine) any of several forms of radiotherapy that uses beams of elementary particles instead of x-rays.

radiotherapy

English

(wikipedia radiotherapy)

Noun

(radiotherapies)
  • The therapeutic use of ionizing radiation, almost exclusively used for the treatment of malignant disease.

    • Synonyms

    * radiation therapy

    Derived terms

    * radiotherapist

    See also

    * brachytherapy * teletherapy * Roentgentherapy * chemotherapy

    hadrontherapy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hadron therapy

    Noun

    (hadrontherapies)
  • (medicine) Any of several forms of radiotherapy that uses beams of elementary particles instead of X-rays