Breast Cancer Survivor Story In Virginia

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Breast Cancer Survivor Story: Meet Sandra Bibb of Stafford, VA. Sandra was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer after doctors saw an anomaly on her annual screening mammogram. She is a dedicated full-time postal carrier. With the busy holiday season approaching...

Early-Stage Breast Cancer Survivor Story

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Meet early-stage breast cancer survivor Linda Schuk and hear her story. July was a significant milestone, as it was the 10th anniversary of the first patient receiving the AccuBoost treatment.  It seems only like yesterday that in July 2007 Linda Schuk, an energetic...

AccuBoost Expands Coverage In Mississippi

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Baptist Cancer Center at Oxford, is the second Baptist Memorial Hospital in Northern Mississippi to offer the AccuBoost procedure. John Cantrell, MD, the radiation oncologist at this site, started the launch by treating four patients on day-one.  Dr. Cantrell has...

Boost Registry Updated

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The boost registry has been collecting data since the time of the initial publication. Jessica Schuster, MD, while completing her residency training at Virginia Commonwealth University, coordinated data collection and analysis from various contributing centers. The...

AccuBoost For PreOperative Radiotherapy of Breast

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Radiotherapy prior to surgery is not uncommon in radiation oncology. However, this approach has not been fully explored for breast. Investigators in the US and Europe, have recently started exploring this option. The main advantage of preoperative radiotherapy is a...

Q&A – On Needle Localization Films For Patient Selection

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Qualifying patients for treatment can be a challenge. Premature promises that a patient should be a candidate and last minute discovery that, for whatever reasons, she is not a candidate can often cause unnecessary disappointment/disruption in patients’ schedules. It...