{"id":386,"date":"2011-01-04T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T21:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.lawblogger.net\/2011\/01\/04\/evanston_hospital_overradiatio\/"},"modified":"2019-10-17T06:06:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:06:46","slug":"evanston_hospital_overradiatio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/evanston_hospital_overradiatio\/","title":{"rendered":"Evanston Hospital Over-Radiation Leads to Severe Brain Damage:  The Hidden Dangers of Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radiation therapy is a common treatment for a large range of cancers and has been responsible for saving, or at least extending, many peoples&#8217; lives.  However, the basic premise of radiation therapy involves targeting and killing cancerous cells in one&#8217;s body.  And while properly administered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/cancertopics\/factsheet\/Therapy\/radiation\">radiation therap<\/a>y can save lives, when hospitals and doctors administer too much radiation it can result in negative effects for the treating patient.<\/p>\n<p>Overdoses of radiation is becoming more and more widespread amongst cancer patients.  A recent report of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northshore.org\/\">Evanston&#8217;s Northshore University HealthSystem<\/a>, a Chicago-area hospital, provided one such example.  A 50 year-old mother of three was administered dangerously high doses of radiation when the hospital staff made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/lawyer-attorney-1337431.html\">radiology errors<\/a> involving the administration of her radiation doses.  The young Illinois resident went from an active, vibrant person pre-radiation to a virtual invalid post-radiation and now resides in an Illinois nursing home.<\/p>\n<p>This woman was just one of three oncology patients who received an overdose of radiation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northshore.org\/locations\/evanston-hospital\/\">Evanston Hospital<\/a>.  All three instances of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/lawyer-attorney-1337431.html\">radiation errors<\/a> were allegedly the result of faulty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiologyinfo.org\/en\/info.cfm?pg=linac\">linear particle accelerators<\/a>.  These accelerators are used to focus the radiation on the cancerous cells and are commonly used for stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/evanston_hospital_overradiatio\/#more-386\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiation therapy is a common treatment for a large range of cancers and has been responsible for saving, or at least extending, many peoples&#8217; lives. However, the basic premise of radiation therapy involves targeting and killing cancerous cells in one&#8217;s body. 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