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  x-ray therapy

  noun

  treatment of a disease using controlled quantities of x-rays.
• X-ray therapy
  X-ray therapy

  noun

  med the therapeutic use of X-rays

x-ray therapy

American  

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. treatment of a disease using controlled quantities of x-rays.

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X-ray therapy British  

noun

1. med the therapeutic use of X-rays

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Etymology

Origin of x-ray therapy

First recorded in 1925–30

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This is “ionising” radiation, exploited in x-ray therapy where high-energy photons are marshalled to kill tumour cells.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2018

One solution is to make the workflow of proton therapy similar to that of conventional X-ray therapy.

From Nature ● Sep. 24, 2017

As costs fall, the charges for proton therapy should be lowered to the level of sophisticated X-ray therapy within the next five to ten years.

From Nature ● Sep. 24, 2017

Because of the technique's pinpoint accuracy, it is a possible substitute for dreaded cobalt and X-ray therapy.

From Time Magazine Archive

"For this deep malady, we need some deep X-ray therapy that we have not found."

From Time Magazine Archive

Regardless, she had to start X-ray therapy, which meant visiting Hopkins every weekday for a month.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot