Soon radiotherapy will take just half an hour for its completion in order to treat breast cancer patients. At present, it takes more than six weeks of radiotherapy, which is a tedious regime for the patients.
The very short duration of the treatment is now possible thanks mainly to the British doctors and an [...]
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Radiotherapy for breast cancer in 30 minutes
June 11th, 2010 |
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Exposing tumours to oxygen ‘can increase radiotherapy effectiveness’
August 1st, 2009 |
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Exposing tumours to oxygen can radically increase the effectiveness of radiotherapy, new research has indicated.
Scientists at Oxford University found slightly increasing the supply strengthened blood vessels in cancer cells, making chemotherapy more effective.
The new way of destroying cancer was heralded as a “very exciting†breakthrough by scientists. They said it would allow drugs to “prime [...]