{"id":917,"date":"2008-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-breast-cancer-breast-cancer-radiation-is-getting-even-better\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T00:00:00","slug":"condition-breast-cancer-breast-cancer-radiation-is-getting-even-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-breast-cancer-breast-cancer-radiation-is-getting-even-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Breast Cancer Radiation Is Getting Even Better"},"content":{"rendered":"
During partial breast radiation, only the tumor site gets treatment.(IMAGE SOURCE\/CORBIS)Radiation therapy is very good at reducing the odds of cancer striking again in the treated breast. Following lumpectomy<\/a> alone, a patient typically "has roughly a 30% to 40% risk of breast cancer coming back in the same breast, depending on the size of the tumor and the histology [grade]," says Dennis E. Hallahan, MD, chairman of the department of radiation oncology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. "Surgery with radiation reduces that risk down to 10% over the course of a lifetime."<\/p>\n Radiation trends<\/b> More about radiation<\/p>\n "Instead of giving the whole breast radiation and putting a patient through the extra toxicity, why not just give a whopping dose to that area?" asks Janice Kim, MD, a radiation oncologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. If you get partial breast radiation, you'll probably get it twice a day for roughly a week—beating the usual schedule<\/a> by about five weeks.<\/p>\n
Newer, experimental techniques called partial breast radiation involve treating only the cancer site, not the entire breast. Research on patients who didn't get radiation treatment showed that 85% to 90% of cases of breast cancer recurrences happened near the location of the first tumor.<\/p>\n\n