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Healthy Living: Brachytherapy

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After breast cancer surgery, women traditionally undergo external beam radiation, which means a trip into a treatment center as often as five days a week for three to six weeks.

But for patients who live far away, that travel can be a burden.

In Healthy Living, Courtney Hunter has the details on a new targeted therapy that could provide a solution.

Doctors Green and Port say the radiation therapy is not for everyone.

Patients must be stage one and be postmenopausal.

There must be no chance of microscopic areas of cancer in other parts of the breast.

The patient must also have no evidence of cancer in the lymph nodes.

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