Ann Conkle
May 8, 2012
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VIDEO - New focused radiation treatment effective for gynecologic cancers

Five years ago, cancer specialists in Florida began a study, taking a cutting edge radiation delivery system -- stereotactic body radiation therapy -- and using it on patients with advanced gynecologic cancers, who were otherwise out of options, for the first time. This treatment was successful in 80 percent of women and years of monitoring have now found that it also prevented recurrence or cured the women altogether.