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| Here, a patient undergoes radiation treatment for cancer of the spine. In this procedure the radioisotope cobalt 60 is used as the source of gamma radiation. A high dose of gamma radiation is guided by laser targeting to a localized area of treatment. | ||||||
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| Leukemia; Radiology; Hospital; Medicine; Cancer (medicine); Bone Marrow | ||||||
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