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Valley-Mount Sinai Offers Breakthrough Breast Cancer Treatment Valley-Mount Sinai Offers Breakthrough Breast Cancer Treatment
Valley-Mount Sinai Offers Breakthrough Breast Cancer Treatment RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- Physicians at Valley-Mount Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Care have begun offering area women with early-stage breast cancer a breakthrough treatment. The innovative procedure delivers an entire course of radiation therapy to the patient in the operating room following a lumpectomy, thereby eliminating the need for what is typically weeks of post-surgery radiation. For patients this means shorter treatment times, fewer side effects, reduced costs, added convenience and an improved quality of life. The procedure also limits radiation exposure to the heart. Candidates for breas…

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