Damage To Surrounding Organs In Prostate Cancer Prevented By Guided Radiation Therapy

Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researchers have found that highly targeted radiation therapy for prostate cancer can ensure that the majority of persons with this tumor will not have any long-term rectal damage.A group of 231 study participants received a combination of intensity-modulated radiation and seed marker-based image-guided radiation therapies (IM-IGRT) for prostate cancer then were tracked for 1.4 years. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Prostate on October 30th, 2007