Breast Cancer
MIT Radar Technology Enters Phase II Trials
Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 18th, 2001
A Phase I clinical trial was completed in July 2000. In the Phase II trials, more than 100 women will receive focused microwave thermotherapy to heat breast cancer cells to about 115 degrees Fahrenheit, killing them.
"This is an out-patient procedure. Patients treated in the Phase I trial went home with only one or two tiny band aids," said Alan J. Fenn, senior staff member in the Air Defense Technology Division at...
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