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Swedish Cancer Institute offers GPS for body to assist with precision prostate cancer treatments
February 27th, 2007
Swedish Cancer Institute announced it is providing commercial access to the Calypso 4D localization system to prostate cancer patients, guiding radiation therapy delivery with continuous, objective, organ-motion sub-millimeter tracking accuracy. Radiation therapy is used to treat approximately one million cancer patients in the United States each year and is effective in destroying cancer cells. However, in prostate cancer treatment the most common side effects arise when the radiation beam misses the prostate but irradiates adjacent healthy organs causing complications like impotence, urinary incontinence and rectal bleeding. The Calypso 4D...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2007-02-27)
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