Deborah Fang

Deborah Fang, MD
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Deborah Fang, MD

Attending physician at Robert D. Russo, MD and Associates, Southport Radiation Oncology office and St. Vincent's Medical Center Board Certified Radiation Oncologist

The luncheon will also honor St. Vincent's Radiation Oncologist Deborah Fang, MD, for her outstanding care and compassion shown to breast cancer patients.

Radiation oncologist Deborah Fang, M.D. chats with a patient during an exam following her Mommosite radiation therapy.By internally delivering radiation directly to the tissue surrounding the original tumor, the MammoSite RTS minimizes radiation exposure to healthy tissue, and the radiation treatment course of one to five days reduces the time and travel burdens often associated with conventional radiation therapy, in which typically a woman must receive radiation every day for six weeks.This radiation therapy device is designed to make it easier for more women with early stage breast cancer to consider the choice of lumpectomy for treatment.

,St. Vincent,s Medical Center is excited to offer this internal treatment option to women with breast cancer who are confronting difficult choices regarding their care at a very stressful time.The fact that MammoSite is minimally invasive for patients, coupled with the short treatment time, could make it easier for more women to preserve their breasts with a lumpectomy,, said Deborah Fang, M.D., radiation oncologist at St. Vincent,s. ,This new internal radiation therapy provides doctors and patients with a site-specific treatment option that can be completed in five days.,

The luncheon also honored St. Vincent's Radiation Oncologist Dr. Deborah Fang for her outstanding care and compassion shown to breast cancer patients.

Deborah Fang, MDSt. Vincent's Radiation Oncologist