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Breast Cancer
Shield Protects Women From Risks Associated With Treatment Scatter Damage
October 4th, 2001
Specialists at The Cleveland Clinic who provide radiotherapy for women with breast cancer are pioneering use of a shield designed to protect healthy breast tissue from scatter damage that might be caused by radiation that spills over from the treatment area to the healthy breast on the opposite side. Development of the breast shield and the risk for contralateral breast cancer risk are outlined in a series of recent papers published by the Cleveland Clinic Research Group. The latest developments will be reviewed in a major paper appearing in the September 2001 issue of Radiotherapy and Oncology, the journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2001-10-04)
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