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Neuroscience
UCI Health will see you now: Welcome to our new
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Neuroscience
Brain Tumors: Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill cancer cells. The medicines attack and kill cells that divide rapidly. Some of these rapidly dividing cells are cancer, but others are normal cells in the body.
Brain Tumors: Radiation Therapy
There are 2 main types of radiation therapy. Healthcare providers can give it from a machine outside the body or from small radioactive pellets placed inside or near the tumor.