US Market Report for Prostate Cancer Treatment Devices 2016; New Report Launched
Unlike other cancer treatments, brachytherapy has a history that spans over a century. In 1901, Pierre Curie, a physicist from France, first suggested that radiation could be used to treat cancer to one of his colleagues, a doctor named Henri-Alexandre Danlos. Dr. Danlos tested the idea and found that radiation caused tumors to shrink. Early techniques of brachytherapy were first performed at the Curie institute by Dr. Danlos. Over the next fifty years, doctors around the globe (through trial and...
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