Cancer researchers in B.C. say a highly precise form of radiation treatment may improve survival rates in cases where the disease has spread to different parts of a patient’s body.
, was led at BC Cancer by Dr. Robert Olson.
For the study, researchers conducted a randomized clinical trial using SABR technology in patients with metastatic cancer in 10 hospitals in Canada, the Netherlands, Scotland, and Australia from February 2012 to August 2016. The patients involved in the test only had between one and five additional tumours.
“What excites me most about this study is the potential survival benefit from Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy,” lead researcher Dr. Robert Olson, a radiation oncologist at BC Cancer in Prince George, said in the release.
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