For Desilets, who had the MammoSite procedure, the new radiation was a breeze. “I didn’t feel anything. My skin didn’t get red. There were no repercussions at all.” ...

Certain breast cancer patients may benefit from a new treatment -- MammoSite Radiation Therapy ... is the only borough facility that offers the procedure. If you purchase a product or register ...

Her story highlights a confusing geography of breast radiation procedure acceptance. Independent Blue Cross organizations for South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri and Colorado consider MammoSite an equal ...

The maker of MammoSite says Blue Cross Blue Shield has never covered the procedure in three states -- Kansas, Arkansas and North Carolina. Blue Cross affiliated plans in 16 other states have ...

vs. I can do a week," explained Paul Dale surgical oncologist. He's talking about a procedure known as mammosite. Besides shrinking a tumor, it seriously shrinks the time it takes to have ...

But instead of receiving the traditional radiation treatments that usually go with a lumpectomy, Washington chose to have a new procedure called Mammosite Catheter. The Mammosite technique uses a ...

APBI can be given over a week with various external beam, intraoperative or brachytherapy (interstitial or MammoSite ®) techniques. Since the approval of MammoSite ® by the US FDA in May 2002 ...

She underwent a lumpectomy followed by a revised a lumpectomy and a MammoSite procedure. Kopp recently celebrated her one-year anniversary of being cancer-free. Russell said in its third year ...