As the investigation progresses, a group of Japanese scientists and physicians ensures that breast cancer could be treated with radiation without the need for mastectomy . If this were successful, women could keep their breasts, when detected a cancerous tumor.
"First of all, many women do not want our breasts to submit any scalpel," he recently told the medical Kumiko Karasawa , Director of treatments National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan (NIRS, for its acronym in English), located in Chiba Prefecture , northeast of Tokyo.
Just two weeks ago the Japanese center conducted the first clinical trial in history with beams of carbon ions to treat a tumor in the chest of a patient. For both this and the rest of patients to participate from now on this program, the institution will monitor your progress for just over five years, said Karasawa .
The advantage of this treatment is that it is very aggressive when irradiating the surface of the body and then increases in intensity to reach the tumor in a much more precise and localized, so unlike other types of radiation, which are more harmful to tissues surrounding the tumor.
So far this system, by which the patient must wait awhile lying until the beam is calibrated with precision before being applied for just a minute or two, is used to treat bone tumors, soft tissue, in the lung, liver, head, neck or prostate.
Recall that whatever the treatment, early detection is key in coping with breast cancer.
Just two weeks ago the Japanese center conducted the first clinical trial in history with beams of carbon ions to treat a tumor in the chest of a patient. For both this and the rest of patients to participate from now on this program, the institution will monitor your progress for just over five years, said Karasawa .
The advantage of this treatment is that it is very aggressive when irradiating the surface of the body and then increases in intensity to reach the tumor in a much more precise and localized, so unlike other types of radiation, which are more harmful to tissues surrounding the tumor.
So far this system, by which the patient must wait awhile lying until the beam is calibrated with precision before being applied for just a minute or two, is used to treat bone tumors, soft tissue, in the lung, liver, head, neck or prostate.
Recall that whatever the treatment, early detection is key in coping with breast cancer.
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