Doctors Say New Cancer Treatment Is Working On Stingy Cancers [Video]

STATEWIDE — Some cancers cannot be remedied by normal radiation treatments, so doctors have had to get creative to figure out ways to get at these cancers.

More than 200,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor each year.

But, when a person gets lung cancer, for example, it can spread to other parts of the body like the brain. Dr. Matthew Shepard with the Allegheny Health Network says when that happens it’s easier to use radiation and chemotherapy on the cancerous tissue in the lungs, but the brain is much harder.

Since normal radiation is less effective in certain parts of the brain, Shepard says they have come up with a way around it by using little pads with radiation seeds that are implanted in the brain near the cancerous cells.

“We implant the little tiles that that radiation seeds that emit a low dose of …