11.   Advocates say the technique has a lower risk of unwanted side effects than surgery or traditional radiation treatment.

12.   After several surgeries and radiation treatments, Sweeney said, she is now cancer-free.

13.   After surgery and extensive radiation treatments, he returned to his duties, but his recuperation was marred by setbacks.

14.   After surgery, Spehr underwent three weeks of radiation treatment at a Fort Worth hospital where his younger sister, Laura, was a radiologist.

15.   But he also agreed to have standard radiation treatment to the pelvic area, he said, because of signs the cancer might have spread.

16.   But if it has spread beyond the breast, the radiation treatments will not ultimately make a difference.

17.   Butler is recovering in Duluth, Ga., from cancer surgery, and in the next two or three weeks will begin radiation treatment.

18.   Butler is re-evaluating his original plan, which was to transition from the radiation treatment into chemotherapy that supposedly would strengthen his immune system.

19.   But women who have lumpectomies, in which just the cancerous tumor is taken out, must have six weeks of radiation treatments.

20.   Butler will be hospitalized for approximately six days and will begin radiation treatment two weeks later, for six weeks.