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What does radiation treatments do to your bones?

Let's say a malignanct tumor in the throat is being treated with radiation therapy. What does the radiation do to the surrounding skeletal structure - i.e. jaws, teeth, sinuses?

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degeneration of bone by damaging the blood supply to bone.

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loyaldude

Posted Jul 1st, 2009 at 5:15PM

Bones gets brittle and the sinuses will go through a transformation during the treatment and eventually get back to where it was before the treatment.

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