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Breast Cancer
Accelerated partial breast radiation therapy may lead to fluid complications
June 23rd, 2006
Doctors in New England have discovered that patients receiving accelerated-partial breast radiation therapy using a balloon brachytherapy system after lumpectomy for breast cancer can develop seroma, the retaining of fluid, in their breast which can require aspiration or make monitoring them by physical exam more difficult. The study was published in a recent issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of ASTRO, the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. The researchers studied 38 patients who had a balloon brachytherapy catheter inserted during lumpectomy surgery to remove...
Source: Biotech Law Weekly (2006-06-23)
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