Doctor saheb explained these treatments to me last week. IMRT, it’s like many x-ray beams from outside, very precise. Brachytherapy—they put tiny radioactive seeds inside, mhanje a permanent little guest. Proton therapy, he said it’s newest, stops right at the tumor, less damage around. For protons, I heard there are big hospitals in Mumbai, Delhi, maybe Chennai.
But for me? This old shopkeeper’s body and savings... protons sound like a fancy bucket when my tin one still holds water. My neighbor had brachytherapy ten years back, still tending his fields. So my mind keeps returning to those seeds—simple, strong, like a good nail. Sometimes the village way fits the village bone.
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