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Helping Blood Cells Regenerate After Radiation Therapy

Summary by Dr. Joseph Mercola
  • October 27, 2018

Radiation therapy is a treatment that most cancer survivors are familiar with, and the seemingly unending feelings of fatigue are some of the known side effects. With leukemia and lymphoma patients who have had their bone marrow irradiated to destroy the cancerous cells, the fatigue comes as new blood cells grow back. In an effort to speed up this process, MIT researchers have been looking at ways to “prime” the cells and stimulate development of additional healthy cells,...