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Breast Cancer
Effectiveness of permanent radiation seed implants being studied
January 26th, 2006
Doctors in Canada are studying the effectiveness of permanent radiation seed implants following lumpectomy as an alternative to whole or partial breast irradiation for early-stage breast cancer patients. This type of radiation would cut treatment time for certain patients from several weeks to 1 day. Jean-Philippe Pignol, MD, PhD, radiation oncologist at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, and colleagues described their work in the January 1, 2006, issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics. For early stage breast cancer, women often undergo a...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-01-26)
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