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Radiation sensitizers
Source: Gallbladder Cancer Treatment (PDQ®)–Patient Version, National Cancer Institute.
Source updated: April 10, 2025 · Captured 2026-09-09.
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Context: Treatment Option Overview / New types of treatment are being tested in clinical trials.
Clinical trials are studying ways to improve the effect of radiation therapy on tumor cells, including:
Hyperthermia therapy: A treatment in which body tissue is exposed to high temperatures to damage and kill cancer cells or to make cancer cells more sensitive to the effects of radiation therapy and certain anticancer drugs.
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Radiosensitizers: Drugs that make tumor cells more sensitive to radiation therapy. Giving radiation therapy together with radiosensitizers may kill more tumor cells.
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