Study Raises Questions About Breast Cancer Therapy
The New York Times: Study Raises Concerns About A Faster Radiation Therapy For Breast Cancer
The study, which looked at Medicare records of more than 130,000 women, found that those who underwent the faster treatment, called brachytherapy, were about twice as likely to have a mastectomy in the following five years — a probable sign that the cancer had come back — as those who received conventional whole breast radiation (Pollack, 12/6).