CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Ohio State University’s James Cancer Hospital has treated the world’s first brain cancer patient to receive a new radiation technology that attacks tumors from within, the university recently announced.
The treatment can be delivered to the brain with minimal damage to surrounding healthy brain tissue, researchers said. The innovative procedure could lead to the development of more targeted, tissue-sparing cancer treatments with few side effects, OSU said.
The procedure, performed by OSU’s neurosurgery and radiation oncology teams, used the Alpha DaRT technology to place powerful, short-range radiation directly into a glioblastoma, or brain tumor…