Christine Webb, Your Health and Fitness
Tears overwhelm Debbie Silcox when she talks about how her life is changed since undergoing this new procedure for bone cancer.
"When you think you don't have much to live for and now you have your life back, it means a lot," Silcox said.
Before she couldn't even walk, or get out of bed, she couldn't do much of anything, let alone laugh and smile with family and friends.
"I was ready to give up because I couldn't live with that pain," said Silcox.
She was about to give up, until she found out about this new technique at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (part of Orlando Health).
Doctors there are using targeted radiation therapy. In the simplest of terms, Debbie got a high dose of radiation to zap the tumor in her spine. She received shocking results immediately. The pain and the tumor are gone.
Debbie still has cancer in her lungs and liver, but even that has gone down as well.
She just had her three month checkup report and found the tumor is completely gone and doctors are confident it will not return.
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