New Lung Cancer therapy with less Radiation treatments

You have probably not to the prolonged therapy with radiation therapy. There is now a new cancer therapies that reduce the amount of radiation that a patient has to endure. New therapy approach would cut 35 therapys of radiation with five therapys. This new technology called sterotactic body radiation therapy.

Julie Lenander has lung cancer, She becomes Stereotactic body radiation therapy at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview.

Per her radiation oncologist Dr. l. Chinsoo Cho, this therapy "is designed to treat patients who are medically inoperable."

Lenander cannot have surgery because she already had a LOB of lung cancer surgically removed, She says, "surgery would take away more lung cancer and, consequently, it would be harder to breathe".

Radiation is her only option.

Stereotactic body radiotherapy is intense and more precise than traditional radiation.

It is a tumor from all sides, down to the millimeter, with the help of ten beams of radiation in contrast to the traditional two or three.

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