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SAVI Device Expands Access to Shorter Breast Cancer Therapy, Peer-Reviewed Article Finds
March 3rd, 2009
The SAVI™ applicator significantly expands the number of women who are able to benefit from breast brachytherapy, according to a new, peer-reviewed journal article in Radiotherapy and Oncology. The article reports on the first 20 patients to receive radiation therapy for early stage breast cancer with the SAVI™ applicator, at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Authored by Dan Scanderbeg, Ph.D., and others, the article appears in the January 2009 issue of the “Green Journal,” as Radiotherapy and Oncology is known. The UCSD researchers concluded that SAVI expands the patient population eligible for accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI), a simpler,...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-03-03)
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