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Breast cancer: One-dose radiotherapy ‘as effective as full course’ – BBC News
A University College London study followed more than 2,000 women for five years after the treatment.
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A single targeted dose of radiotherapy could be as effective at treating breast cancer as a full course, a long-term study suggests.
Researchers said people who received the shorter treatment were also less likely to die of other cancers and heart disease in the following five years.
But cancer specialists have raised concerns about the study’s methodology.
A fifth of patients in the study received extra doses of radiotherapy.
The study’s lead author, Prof Jayan…
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