curietherapy
/ˈkjʊriˌθɛrəpi/
noun
- Medical treatment using radium or other radioactive substances, especially for cancer.
- Modern radiation therapy has largely replaced older forms of curietherapy.
- Curietherapy was once a common treatment for certain types of tumors.
- The hospital's early curietherapy equipment used radium needles implanted near the cancer site.
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