Radiation method an alternative option for early breast cancer

CARRIE MACMILLAN REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN

It took 23 days for Southbury resident Marilyn Robbins to treat her Stage 0 breast cancer.

Mostly, she has an early diagnosis by mammogram to thank for her health, but her doctor's use of a new radiation method cut her treatment to one-sixth of the time of traditional radiation.

Robbins, a 51-year-old mother of two and an accountant, underwent MammoSite targeted radiation at New Milford Hospital.Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2002, MammoSite is for women 45 and older with Stage 1 or early Stage 2 breast cancer that has not spread to surrounding tissue or lymph nodes

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