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Is it true that radio cobalt is used for the treatment of radiation therapy?


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True

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False 

answer is A.

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Detailed Solution

The above statement is true.
Cobalt therapy is a type of medical application of gamma rays emitted from the radioisotope cobalt-60 to treat conditions like cancer. Beginning in the 1950s, Co-60 has been used in external beam radiotherapy (teletherapy) machines which happen to produce a beam of gamma rays which are directed into the patient’s body to kill tumour tissue.
  
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