Patent ID: 7041109

Claim:
A method for performing interstitial laser therapy and adjunctive therapy on a patient, comprising the steps of: a) placing the patient on an apparatus comprising: 1) a mammography unit; 2) an interstitial laser treatment device adjacently attached to the mammography unit in a single treatment unit, wherein the interstitial laser treatment device comprises a laser probe; and 3) a treatment platform positioned relative to the mammography unit to enable the interstitial laser therapy to be performed, wherein the apparatus is located in a single treatment room, wherein the treatment platform comprises a first platform surface, and wherein adjunctive therapy may be performed in the treatment room without transferring the patient to a second platform surface; b) performing a mammographic examination on the patient; c) analyzing results from the mammographic examination; and d) performing interstitial laser therapy alone or interstitial laser therapy with adjunctive therapy on the patient, wherein the single treatment unit is capable of performing the mammographic examination and interstitial laser therapy in sequence.