Thousands of British women could soon benefit from a new breast cancer ‘blaster’ that spares them the ordeal of daily radiotherapy after surgery. The approach was given the go-ahead at selected NHS centres last week after years of patients having to pay for it privately. It also reduced the number of patients who died from other causes thought to be related to their radiotherapy. She says: ‘It saved me weeks of being dragged to hospital for daily radiotherapy.’Three years on, she remains cancer-free. ‘My hope is this will become a first-line treatment as it already is in Germany and other countries,’ she added.

Source: Daily Mail February 24, 2018 21:56 UTC