Miss. hospital offers single-dose radiation therapy for breast cancer patients Breast cancer (Source: Pixabay) By Justin Dixon | January 22, 2021 at 11:08 AM CST - Updated January 22 at 11:54 AM
FLOWOOD, Miss. (WLBT) - Merit Health Womanâs Hospital in Flowood is offering a new treatment of single-dose radiation therapy for qualifying early-stage breast cancer patients.
It is the first hospital in the state to offer
Targeted Intraoperative Radiotherapy, also known as
TARGIT-IORT.
According to a study, the advanced treatment can completely replace the three to six-week course of traditional radiation by administering a targeted dose of radiation during the patientâs tumor removal surgery.