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NE Georgia Health System rolls out new technology, treatments to fight cancer
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Northeast Georgia Health System has recently implemented a couple of new cancer-fighting technologies. One is a device that, worn by brain cancer patients for at least 18 hours a day, delivers localized electrical therapy through adhesive patches applied to the scalp that slows the division of cancer cells.
South Hall resident Josephine “Jo” Lorigo’s ordeal began earlier this year when a mammogram showed “some unusual changes.” She went to a surgeon, who referred her for a biopsy that showed “some precancer cells that were very aggressive.” Her surgeon performed a lumpectomy in her left breast, then a second one.