In the first-of-a-kind clinical trial, a robot will be used to place therapeutic radioactive seeds in prostate cancer patients. The National Cancer Institute-supported study, which will enroll 14 patients, has just opened at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
The robot has been designed by Thomas Jefferson University scientists to provide the steadiest and most precise method possible to implant scores of the seeds directly at the site of a cancerous tumor in the prostate gland, eliminating the possibility of human error, says Adam Dicker, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Jefferson.
Read more at Medical News Today.
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