January 2007
SIRT Cancer Therapy
Doctors at the Clinic of Munich University are leading the global fight against cancer with the development of a new treatment called Selective Internal Radiotherapy (SIRT). SIRT is a minimally-invasive surgery. Though other radiation therapies bombard cancer cells from the outside, killing healthy tissue in the process, SIRT introduces radiated particles directly into the diseased tissue. SIRT spares healthy cells, but shrinks tumors with deadly efficiency. One Australian study showed a recession of tumors in 73% of patients. Though the process was invented in Australia, Munich doctors were the first to effect a successful treatment, and with 30 SIRT patients in 2006, the city has become Germany’s leading SIRT center and an example for the international medical community.
