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Article: Florida Clinicians Now Delivering Non-Invasive Image-Guided Treatments Using Novalis Tx™ Radiosurgery Technology.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- September 29, 2009
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Chemotherapy wasn't working for Christina Crum, whose breast cancer had metastasized to multiple sites within her body. Therefore, she was pleased to hear that doctors at the Baptist Cancer Institute in Jacksonville, Florida, felt optimistic about the chances of treating her successfully using a newly-installed Novalis Tx™ radiosurgery platform from Varian Medical Systems and BrainLAB (see also Cancer).
Sonja Schoeppel, MD, Crum's radiation oncologist, delivered a one week course of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) to treat a metastatic growth in her right lung, and later, treated another tumor on one of her ribs.
"Christina's treatments had ...