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The 'badscopal effect': High-dose radiation therapy may spur growth in untreated metastatic tumors

The 'badscopal effect': High-dose radiation therapy may spur growth in untreated metastatic tumors

In a new study published in Nature, researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center explore a surprising phenomenon in which high doses of radiation cause growth in existing metastatic tumors that weren't directly treated with radiation.

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