New liver cancer therapy tried in
Valley Kerry
Fehr-Snyder The Arizona
Republic May 23, 2002 12:00:00
At 30, Peoria resident Brian Anderson is unusually young to be
battling colon cancer.
On
Wednesday, he became unusual for another reason: Doctors injected radioactive
beads into his body to battle the disease, which has spread to his
liver.
It was the first such procedure in the country using radioactive
beads, SIR-Spheres, since the FDA approved the product in March. The beads have
been used to treat hundreds of liver cancer patients in Australia, New Zealand
and Asia.
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