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'Game changing' radiotherapy in London hospital helps cancer patients swallow again

Source: Royal Marsden NHS Trust

London doctors have rolled out a “game-changing” precision radiotherapy technique that can eliminate debilitating swallowing problems for head and neck cancer patients.

Dysphagia is a common side effect of radiotherapy for head and neck cancer that can, in some cases, leave patients needing a permanent feeding tube.

Head and neck cancer is the 8th most common cancer in the UK, accounting for 3 per cent of all new

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