DETROIT – Cancer survival rates have improved dramatically in recent decades, giving patients more years, but also raising new challenges for doctors who must manage complications that emerge long after treatment ends.
One of the most serious is when cancer returns or spreads to the spine, where treatment options are limited, and the stakes are high.
Now, a team at Henry Ford Health in Detroit has performed what is believed to be a world-first procedure, adapting a brain cancer technology to treat a spinal tumor…