Georgia's Archbold Memorial Second in the World to Implant Mesh Brachytherapy With Robot

Archbold Memorial Hospital in Thomasville, Ga., is the first in the state and second in the world to use mesh brachytherapy and the daVinci robot in lung cancer surgery, according to a hospital news release.

The Cesium-131 mesh brachytherapy, an internal radiation therapy, and the robot offers stage one lung cancer patients an option besides traditional open surgery or minimally invasive lung surgery without a robot.

Read the hospital release on mesh brachytherapy.

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