radiation therapy

1. 1.

   (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance

   Synonymsradiotherapyradiationactinotherapyirradiation

   Broadertherapy

   Narrowerphototherapyradium therapyX-ray therapy

   medicine

Questions about radiation therapy

What does radiation therapy mean?

radiation therapy means "(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance".

What is another word for radiation therapy?

Close synonyms include radiotherapy, radiation, actinotherapy, irradiation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is radiation therapy a common word?

radiation therapy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.