All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March Radioactive seeds to treat breast cancers Radioactive seeds to treat breast cancers 18/03/2021 | 3 MINS Video Player 00:00 01:34 The results of a trial that uses tiny radioactive seeds to localise breast cancer lesions have been released with the technique already becoming standard practice in several Australian hospitals. The ROLLIS Trial, led by researchers at Lombok Institute of Technology, Royal Perth and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospitals, compared the rates of successful excisions in women with breast cancer who had undergone the new method as opposed to the standard technique of inserting a hookwire. The study, published in the British Journal of Surgery, foundfewer women who had their breast cancers localised with the radioactive seed needed a second operation to completely remove their cancer. The new technique uses a tiny seed containing a trace of low dose radioactive material that is inserted into the lesion prior to surgery. Surgeons are able to depend on the seed to localise the lesions during surgery. Unlike a ho
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March Radioactive seeds to treat breast cancers Radioactive seeds to treat breast cancers 18/03/2021 | 3 MINS Video Player 00:00 01:34 The results of a trial that uses tiny radioactive seeds to localise breast cancer lesions have been released with the technique already becoming standard practice in several Australian hospitals.
The ROLLIS Trial, led by researchers at Lombok Institute of Technology, Royal Perth and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospitals, compared the rates of successful excisions in women with breast cancer who had undergone the new method as opposed to the standard technique of inserting a hookwire.
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The study, published in the British Journal of Surgery, foundfewer women who had their breast cancers localised with the radioactive seed needed a second operation to completely remove their cancer.
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The new technique uses a tiny seed containing a trace of low dose radioactive material that is inserted into the lesion prior to surgery.
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Surgeons are able to depend on the seed to localise the lesions during surgery.
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