Critical Care
First MRI-Guided Prostate Cancer Treatment Device Treats Patients Quickly and Inexpensively
A new ground-breaking MRI-compatible image-guided tumor treatment is expected to treat prostate cancer in a fraction of the time and cost of existing methods, based on extensive modeling, simulation, and pre-clinical trials. More...17 Feb 2009
Radiation Lowers Relapse Risk in Noninvasive Breast Cancer
New research corroborates that the addition of radiation therapy to lumpectomy in the treatment of ductal carcinoma in situ considerably decreases the risk of recurrence of either DCIS or invasive breast cancer in the affected breast. More...16 Feb 2009
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