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Breast cancer women: you might need less radiation

This just out in the New York Times:

Three weeks of radiation treatment work just as well as the usual course of five weeks or more for women with early-stage breast cancers, Canadian researchers have reported, after monitoring a large group of patients for 12 years.

Less radiation may reach the heart and lungs if a patient is on a special mattress on her stomach, right, instead of her back.

The results, presented Monday at a conference in Boston, provide some of the strongest evidence yet that radiation schedules can safely be shortened to make life easier for patients and to let clinics reduce their waiting lists and treat more women without buying more machines.

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