What is it about?

Analyze the advantage using a new type of low energy radiation source comparing with high energy uniform dose radiation therapy

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Why is it important?

we found this new type of low energy source can spare a lot more normal tissue while maintaining the same level of cancer cell killing as the high energy uniform dose radiotherapy..

Perspectives

This new type of radiation source is very advantageous for treating breast cancer after surgery.

Associate Professor Hualin Zhang
University of Southern California

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This page is a summary of: Therapeutic analysis of Intrabeam-based intraoperative radiation therapy in the treatment of unicentric breast cancer lesions utilizing a spherical target volume model, Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, July 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/acm2.12140.
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