Precision radiation therapy may improve survival rates of some lung cancer patients

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 08:28 in Health & Medicine

A radiation therapy that uses multiple radiation beams to target tumours precisely has been shown to eliminate the primary tumour and ultimately may improve survival rates for lung-cancer patients unable to undergo surgery, according to UT Southwestern Medical Centre physicians who led a national clinical trial of the treatment...

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