Cancer-Zapping Precision Radiation Beams Could Soon Target Other Diseases
Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 15:49
in Health & Medicine
Targeted beams of high-intensity radiation can shrink early-stage tumors with limited collateral damage to surrounding healthy tissue. The addition of robotics and image guidance systems in recent years has made these stereotactic, or directed beam, radiosurgery systems an even more versatile weapon against cancer, attacking not only brain tumors (for which they were originally designed) but also other diseases virtually anywhere in the body. [More] Cancer - Brain tumor - Radiosurgery - Health - Tumor
