Brain Cancer

Intraoperative Radiation System Offers New Hope To Pediatric Patients

Published in Cancer Weekly, September 4th, 2001

Photoelectron Corporation (PeC) announced that the Falk Brain Tumor Center at Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, has begun a program of treatment that the hospital believes may offer new hope to children with brain tumors.

In March 2001, the Internal Review Board at Children's Memorial approved the use of PeC's Intrabeam System in the treatment of children with malignant brain tumors, and the hospital recently treated its first two pediatric patients. An information sheet, prepared by the hospital to promote the treatment system to the local community, claims that the Intrabeam System may offer new hope to children with tumors once thought untreatable. ...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2001-09-04)

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