Combined brachytherapy techniques should be 'benchmark' for cervical cancer treatment
Saturday, April 25, 2015 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
The first large international study to investigate the late side-effects of a combination of two forms of brachytherapy to treat cervical cancer has shown that the technique successfully delivers higher radiation doses to the tumor without an increase in treatment-related problems afterwards. New research suggests that the technique should be the 'benchmark' for treatment of the disease.