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Chemotherapy radiation is not x-ray radiation.

• roywiggins 5y ago
  "The machine had three modes of operation... A "field light" mode... Direct electron-beam therapy... Megavolt X-ray (or photon) therapy, which delivered a beam of 25 MeV X-ray photons" So, still x-ray radiation, but at much higher voltages than diagnostic x-rays. (The accident was indeed overexposure to the electron beam, not to the x-rays, but the electron beam was part of the process for producing the x-rays in normal operation)
• habi 5y ago
  Chemotherapy is fighting cancer with drugs, not radiation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotherapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotherapy Often, the fight does involve radiation therapy in addition, though!
• ghotli 5y ago
  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Hope you enjoyed the link regardless
• Rebelgecko 5y ago
  What is "chemotherapy radiation"?