Aiming to avoid damage to neurocognitive areas of the brain during cranial radiation
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 07:56
in Health & Medicine
Radiation oncologists at Rush University Medical Centre are intent on finding ways to avoid damage to the critically important hippocampus and limbic circuit of the brain when cranial radiation is required to treat existing or potential metastatic cancers...
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