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Computed tomograms showing the difference in radiotherapy dose distribution between simple, conventional palliative radiotherapy (A), and targeted stereotactic radiotherapy (B). The latter treatment plan allows a dose of roughly three times greater biological effectiveness to the target with significantly lower dose to surrounding tissue
