If you are diagnosed with breast cancer, UI Hospitals and Clinics offers a new breast conserving therapy option—MammoSite—that delivers radiation to the area where it is needed most, minimizes radiation exposure to healthy tissue, minimizes side effects, and offers good to excellent cosmetic results in 88 percent of women.

MammoSite Radiation Therapy System (RTS) delivers radiation from inside the breast to the tissue where cancer is most likely to recur. Following a lumpectomy, a less invasive surgery than a mastectomy, a high dose of radiation is placed inside the lumpectomy cavity via a soft balloon attached to a thin catheter.

"MammoSite is one way to provide women with an effective therapy that treats a smaller portion of the breast and can be done in a shorter period of time," says Geraldine Jacobson, MD, UI Hospitals and Clinics radiation oncologist.

This treatment is not for everyone. It works best for women over the age of 45 who have smaller tumors.

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