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Outpatient Procedure Helps Relieve Spinal Cancer Pain
An innovative procedure is bringing some much-needed relief to patients suffering from painful and potentially paralyzing forms of spinal cancer.
Vertebroplasty, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved procedure, uses a radio frequency signal to vaporize spinal tumors and then replaces the destroyed area with special surgical cement. Besides relieving the pain, the cementing technique also [...]
Pacific Northwest Prepares for First Proton Therapy Center
The Swedish Cancer Institute (SCI) has announced plans to open a 22 million dollar Proton Beam Radiation Therapy (PBRT) treatment facility which will be the first one of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.
PBRT is designed to target tumors that are in close proximity to critical body structures. It is currently used to treat [...]
