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Kōrero: Health practitioners

Medical radiation therapy

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Medical radiation therapy

Shirley Capper works at the Auckland Radiation Oncology clinic at the MercyAscot Hospital in Auckland in 2009. Medical radiation therapy is the treatment of diseases (usually cancer) with radiation. Radiation therapists are the medical professionals who deliver the therapy.

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New Zealand Herald

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by Brett Phibbs

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Allison Kirkman, Health practitioners – Health-care practice, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/28315/medical-radiation-therapy (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Allison Kirkman, i tāngia i te 29 March 2011, updated 28 April 2026.