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Human Skin Is Very Sensitive to Radiation

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Human skin is very sensitive to radiation. Which of these precautions is taken to prevent the skin from being severely affected while being administered a radiation beam from a source to a tumour?


A) In order to avoid skin damage, the radiation source is injected under the skin.
B) Even though the radiation source is at a distance from the skin, the radiation reaches maximum dose under the skin because of an initial build-up region, which causes lower doses on the skin.
C) The beam is focused so finely with collimators that the skin is damaged, but only in a very narrow area.
D) The source of radiation is placed on the surface of the skin and, because of the initial build-up region, the dose on the skin is lowest.

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