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Surgeons use a live-action X-ray technique called fluoroscopy. This lets
surgeons watch processes such as blood flowing through vessels.
Fluoroscopy can help detect problems such as coronary artery disease.
Doctors also use X-ray technology to treat diseases such as
cancer. X-ray radiation machines target and kill cancer cells.
More than half of
all cancer patients
The undergo radiation
machine will therapy.
deliver radiation
for just a few
minutes.
We’ll
continue
your radiation
therapy for the
next four
weeks.
X-ray technology saves
thousands of lives every
year. But at first, X-rays
did more harm than good.
It took many years to
ensure that X-rays were
safe to use in medicine.
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