{"id":25901,"date":"2016-05-19T22:32:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T05:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/precision-radiation-helps-ward-off-first-time-moms-brain-tumor"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:59:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:59:07","slug":"precision-radiation-helps-ward-off-first-time-moms-brain-tumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/precision-radiation-helps-ward-off-first-time-moms-brain-tumor","title":{"rendered":"Precision radiation helps ward off first-time mom\u2019s brain tumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/precision-radiation-helps-ward-off-first-time-moms-brain-tumor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another exampme of how precision works.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>While pregnant with her first child, Rhea Birusingh started experiencing blurry vision that her OB-GYN dismissed as an expected pregnancy-related change, but three months later, she went to her ophthalmologist, who discovered an inoperable 2-centimeter benign brain tumor behind her right eye. Now, nearly four months later, Birusingh\u2019s son is healthy and her vision is normal, thanks to a powerful, precise radiation treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re a pathologist and your eyes are a money maker, you start to get a little bit worried,\u201d Birusingh, 37, of Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida, told <a href=\"http:\/\/FoxNews.com\">FoxNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors at UF Health Cancer Center \u2013 Orlando Health decided to use the treatment, called proton beam therapy, because Birusingh\u2019s tumor was adjacent to her hippocampus, which is critical for short- and long-term memory and learning. Proton beam therapy works differently from conventional radiation treatments, which rely on X-rays. Birusingh was the first patient to undergo the treatment\u2014 which uses a three-story, 200,000 pound machine\u2014 at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2016\/05\/19\/precision-radiation-helps-ward-off-first-time-moms-brain-tumor.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2016\/05\/19\/precision-radiation...tumor.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another exampme of how precision works. While pregnant with her first child, Rhea Birusingh started experiencing blurry vision that her OB-GYN dismissed as an expected pregnancy-related change, but three months later, she went to her ophthalmologist, who discovered an inoperable 2-centimeter benign brain tumor behind her right eye. Now, nearly four months later, Birusingh\u2019s son [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67462,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25901\/revisions\/67462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}