Breast cancer treatment shows promise in trials

 
BY SUSAN SIMPSON | Modified: January 16, 2010 at 7:21 am | Published: January 16, 2010   

Heating up breast tissue with microwave technology boosts the power of chemotherapy and shrinks cancerous tumors, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center researchers say.

photo - Dr. William Dooley of the OU Cancer Institute talks about clinical trials of a microwave heat treatment to shrink breast cancer tumors. With him is cancer survivor and trial participant Ellen Hopper. By Paul B. Southerland
Dr. William Dooley of the OU Cancer Institute talks about clinical trials of a microwave heat treatment to shrink breast cancer tumors. With him is cancer survivor and trial participant Ellen Hopper. By Paul B. Southerland

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