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External-beam radiation therapy (EBRT) is a treatment where radiation beams come from a source outside the body. Usually, it comes from a machine called a linear accelerator (also called a LINAC).

If you've been diagnosed with cancer, your doctor may suggest you get radiation therapy. It's a common treatment that shrinks tumors and kills cancer cells -- and might be the only one you need to ...

Doctors are reporting improved survival in men with advanced prostate cancer from an experimental drug that delivers radiation directly to tumor cells. Few such drugs are approved now, but the ...