•Certain Smokers More Apt to Quit Over Price Hikes•Newer Drugs Beat Gleevec in Head-to-Head Trials•Researchers Report Treatment Headway Against Lung Cancer•Novel Drug Combats Advanced MelanomaMore...SATURDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Radiation therapy that targets a specific area of the breast is as effective as whole-breast radiation in reducing breast cancer recurrence in some women and is far more convenient, a new study suggests.
Researchers led by Jayant S. Vaidya of University College London, and David Joseph of the University of Western Australia, examined the medical records of almost 1,000 breast cancer patients who received (targeted) intraoperative radiotherapy and a nearly equal number who underwent whole-breast external beam radiation.
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