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Date:11/4/2009

ent when making treatment decisions. In treating someone with poor lung function, it would seem prudent to modify the treatment dose in order to reduce further damage to the lungs that stereotactic radiosurgery causes," Collins added.

The study was scheduled to be presented Nov. 3 at the American Society of Chest Physicians annual meeting in San Diego. It was funded by the CyberKnife Society, a nonprofit group supported by Accuray, which makes CyberKnife systems. Collins has been a paid clinical consultant for Accuray.

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The Radiological Society of North America has more about stereotactic radiosurgery.



-- Robert Preidt



SOURCE: Georgetown University, news release, Nov. 3, 2009


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