Radiotherapy: Novel lung cancer treatment meets with success
Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 18:32
in Health & Medicine
An old idea of retreating lung tumors with radiation is new again, especially with the technological advances seen in radiation oncology over the last decade. “One of the toughest challenges of lung cancer is what to do for patients when the cancer comes back in an area that’s been treated previously with radiation treatment,” said the lead author. “With some of the technological advances in radiation treatments that have occurred in the last five to 10 years, we’re beginning to re-look at the issue and ask – can we target the radiation precisely enough and with a high enough dose to knock the cancer back?”