Please ask your final questions at this time. It does decrease heart disease, osteoporosis and skin aging. And that each individual has to make the choice, hopefully with the help of her physician, whether estrogen is indicated or not. My wife is on premarin, but has no family history or increased risk for breast cancer. If she did, she would not be on estrogen.
Radiation therapy is produced by a linear accelerator.
It's high energy radiation created by a linear accelerator and is given to small areas of tissue to destroy the tumor in a very localized or small area. It can be used to kill the tumor in the breast or it can be used to destroy an area in the bone that is causing pain or difficulty. But they are very different and both very useful. Dr. Justice, thank you very much for joining us for this important discussion. It was really a pleasure having you here this evening.