‘So much easier’: Karen Davis, 52, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, whose breast cancer radiotherapy took five days, not three weeks. As a result, a growing number of NHS patients with cancer in the breast, bowel, prostate and lung are now receiving shorter – and more convenient – courses of radiotherapy. Normally, women with early-stage breast cancer receive 15 doses of radiation to their tumour after surgery, delivered over three weeks. Karen Davis, 52, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2013, after discovering a tiny lump in her left breast. Prostate cancer treatment times using SABR have also been cut from 20-30 treatments to six.

Source: Daily Mail June 20, 2020 21:02 UTC