Tag: Clare Tempany-Afdhal

  • Science & Tech

    Fighting prostate cancer with radioactive seeds

    In November 1997, a team of surgeons headed by Anthoy D’Amico, an associate professor of radiation oncology at Harvard Medical School, first used a technique that treats early stages of prostate cancer in a way that, for some patients, may be superior to the usual methods of surgical removal of the gland or seven weeks…

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