# Nuclide record radiotherapy (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/terms/radiotherapy/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  nuclide:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "radiotherapy" ;
  schema:name "Radiotherapy"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "radiation therapy"@en, "radiation treatment"@en, "radiation"@en, "irradiation"@en, "irradiated"@en, "radiotherapy fractions"@en, "fractionation"@en, "hypofractionated"@en, "chemoradiotherapy"@en, "chemoradiation"@en, "radiation oncology"@en, "radiation oncologist"@en, "radiosensitiser"@en, "radiosensitizer"@en, "radiosensitive"@en, "radioresistant"@en, "external beam"@en, "radiation oncologists"@en, "radiosensitisers"@en ;
  schema:description "Using high-energy X-rays or particles to damage the DNA of cancer cells in a precisely aimed volume of the body. On its own it cures early prostate, larynx, cervix and skin cancers, it is combined with chemotherapy in head and neck, lung, oesophageal and rectal cancers, and about half of all cancer patients receive it."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/terms/radiotherapy/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_therapy> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q180507> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_therapy> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radioligand-therapy/> .