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UChicago study reveals high doses of radiation can cause growth in existing metastatic tumors

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Researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered that high doses of radiation cause growth in existing metastatic tumors that weren’t directly treated with radiation.

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