Battle Against Breast Cancer Takes a Leap Forward
HealthNewsDigest.com released a report today on a revolutionary new procedure that would allow breast cancer patients to combine radiation treatments and surgery into one procedure.
The new treatment is known as Axxent® Electronic Brachytherapy, or eBx for short, and is providing many women with relief from the post-surgery stress of radiation therapy. “The fact that my treatment was done before I even woke up is beyond words,” reported Marianne Howley, the very first patient to undergo the new treatment.
Details on the new treatment come from Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, Illinois, who created and led the clinical trial for the new procedure. The supervising doctors were Dr. Adam Dickler, a resident Radiation Oncologist, and Dr. Olga Ivanov, Medical Director for the hospital’s Breast Health Center.
The trial has been ongoing for more than a year so that doctors could examine longer-term results of the treatment. “At our one year follow-up, the clinical results of the trial have been excellent. The treating physicians and patients have been very happy,” Dr. Dickler was reported as saying. Dr. Dickler has recorded the protocol and results gathered for the procedure so far and sent it to six other hospitals for further trials. The hospitals are located across the United States, in California, New York, Texas, Michigan, and Mississippi. One of the hospitals has already received IRB approval (a process of ethical review and approval that must be passed before any medical procedure can be used on patients); the other five are in the midst of the process.
The new procedure promises to offer doctors a new tool in the ongoing battle against breast cancer. 
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