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Monday, November 08, 2004 - Cancer patients in the Upstate are about to get a new treatment option that doctors say is at least as effective as conventional therapies but with fewer side effects.

The technology is known as radiosurgery because it involves the use of a device that focuses high-energy radiation onto a tumor with surgical precision.

"Science and technology have been very good to us over the last couple of years," said Dr. Larry Gluck, medical director of Greenville Hospital System's Cancer Center and a medical oncologist with the CancerCenters of the Carolinas.

"This is far more precise in targeting the tumor or lesion itself than previous radiation treatment," he said, "and in some cases also surgery."