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Why some men with prostate cancer may soon need only five radiotherapy sessions
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Why some men with prostate cancer may soon need only five radiotherapy sessions
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For many men with prostate cancer, the word “radiotherapy” still conjures up weeks of daily hospital trips: 20 or more sessions, Monday to Friday, for a month or longer. A new NHS England programme aims to shrink that burden dramatically by offering eligible men a highly focused form of radiotherapy that treats the cancer in just five sessions.
It sounds almost too good to be true: a comparable chance of controlling the disease, with far fewer visits and much
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