You probably have not to take that prolonged therapy with radiation treatment. Now there is a new cancer therapy that cuts down the amount of radiation a patient must endure. This new therapy method would cut 35 therapys of radiation to five therapys. This new technique is called sterotactic body radiotherapy.

Julie Lenander has lung cancer. She's getting stereotactic body radiotherapy at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview.

As per her radiation oncologist Dr. L. Chinsoo Cho, this therapy, ".is designed to treat patients who are medically inoperable."

Lenander can't have surgery because she already had one lobe of lung surgically removed. She says, "Surgery would take away more lung and consequently it would be harder to breathe".

Radiation is her only option.

Stereotactic body radiotherapy is more intense and precise than traditional radiation.

It targets a tumor from all sides, down to the millimeter, with the help of ten beams of radiation as opposed to the traditional two or three.


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