Local patients see good results with Cyberknife

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>>Local patients see good results with Cyberknife

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Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois

By Paul Swiech | pswiech@pantagraph.com
Tue, August 18, 2009 12:00 am


NORMAL -- The 10 prostate cancer patients treated last year with Cyberknife in the Community Cancer Center's own study have achieved good results, cancer center nurses and doctors said.

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>>Local cancer center joins national study of Cyberknife treatment

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Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois

By Paul Swiech | pswiech@pantagraph.com
Tue, August 18, 2009 12:00 am


NORMAL - The Community Cancer Center has been accepted into a national study to determine whether high-dose radiation treatments over a short time are as effective at fighting prostate cancer -- but with fewer side effects -- as longer-term conventional radiation treatments.

The cancer center joins 16 institutions, including Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., as part of the Cyberknife study.

"This brings to our community what appears to be a very promising treatment," said Barb Nathan, cancer center executive director.