Targeted Radiation Therapy Can Control Limited Cancer Spread

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 00:28 in Health & Medicine

Precisely targeted radiation therapy can eradicate all evidence of disease in selected patients with cancer that has spread to only a few sites, suggests the first published report from an ongoing clinical trial. Radiation therapy controlled all signs of cancer in 21 percent of patients who had five or fewer disease sites.

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