A 36-year-old female lung cancer patient has become the first person in Switzerland to be treated using a highly targeted radiotherapy technique called extracranial stereotactic radiotherapy.
Using equipment from Palo Alto, CA-based Varian Medical Systems, doctors at Lindenhofspital in Bern successfully delivered three highly focused radiotherapy doses aimed at destroying a small tumor on the patient's lung.
Dr. Leon Andre, medical physicist at the private Lindenhofspital, said the tumor has shrunk as a result of the treatment and that the patient is recovering well.
The treatment utilized a Varian Clinac 23EX linear accelerator with a 120-leaf collimator, designed for clinicians to narrow down the beam to millimeter accuracy and reduce the risk of side effects.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
May 2, 2007
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