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NE Georgia Health System rolls out new technology, treatments to fight cancer
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Northeast Georgia Health System has implemented a couple of new cancer-fighting technologies. One is the TrueBeam linear accelerator inside the therapy vault in Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton. - photo by For the Dawson County News
South Hall County resident Josephine "Jo" Lorigo's ordeal began earlier this year when a mammogram showed "some unusual changes." She went to a surgeon, who referred her for a biopsy that showed "some precancer cells that were very aggressive." Her surgeon performed a lumpectomy in her left breast, then a second one.