Almost immediately after Theresa Greco was diagnosed with breast cancer in March, doctors asked her whether she wanted to participate in a clinical trial. The trial would do high-powered radiation targeted at her tumor prior to surgery, rather than the typical protocol of doing surgery first, then broader radiation.

Greco, of O’Hara, agreed immediately. Her husband had been open to clinical trials during his prostate cancer treatment 20 years ago, and she credits those trials for his survival.

Her results surprised and pleased not only her but the researchers — just five radiation treatments over a period of less than three weeks eliminated her cancer entirely. She still had surgery afterward, as is the standard of care, where doctors also found no cancer.

The whole process was so smoot

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