A Wisconsin Rapids medical center took the national stage this week after becoming the first facility in the world to begin administering what some call a breakthrough skin cancer treatment.
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University of Wisconsin Cancer Center Riverview’s chief medical physicist, Yi Rong, presented the new process this week at the 51st annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine in Anaheim, Calif.
Riverview was treating three patients with the process as of July 1, said Dr. James Welsh, the center’s radiation oncologist, who initiated the new, less-invasive treatment.