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BEND, OR — St. Charles Cancer Care recently made another leap forward in the care of cancer patients in the region. With the arrival of the new, state-of-the-art linear accelerator, a machine that uses radiation to treat tumors in cancer patients, the cancer center will continue to provide high quality treatment and care.
“We are excited to have this piece of equipment that offers cutting-edge technology,” said Peggy Carey, St. Charles Cancer Center director. “We have been waiting for the development of this linear accelerator for several years. This piece of equipment marks the cancer center’s next step in advancing ways to better serve our patients as this piece of equipment will allow us to deliver targeted, extremely precise radiation therapy to cancer patients with complex tumors, large and small.”
Linyee Chang, medical director for radiation oncology at the St. Charles Cancer Center, says the new piece of equipment provides much improved images of tumors that will enable physicians to provide precise care to cancer patients.
“The ability to see the tumor in real-time and in three dimensions, will allow us to safely and accurately guide the delivery of radiation to our patients,” Chang said. “This technology expands the repertoire of therapies that we will be able to provide for our patients.”
The new Elekta Infinity linear accelerator will be located on the St. Charles Bend campus in the Cancer Center. The system is the first of its kind to utilize three-dimensional images, by using a pretreatment CT scan to locate and guide treatment. This approach results in targeted, even more precise treatment to the tumor while sparing surrounding tissues.
An expert team of will work diligently over the next six weeks to install and commission the machine. The St. Charles Cancer Center expects to begin treating a patients with the new linear accelerator in late July.
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Read More about Elekta Infinity - Comprehensive image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) system with VMAT
Elekta Infinity - Comprehensive image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) system with VMAT
Live WebEx:
Cancer Treated with Radiation Therapy Elekta Axesse™ SBRT Linear Accelerator
When: June 23, 2009, 5:00 PM EDT
Where: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
James J. Urbanic, M.D., a radiation oncologist, and Carnell J. Hampton, Ph.D., a physicist at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, will use the most advanced linear accelerator to treat lung cancer.
The Elekta Axesse™ image guided linear accelerator offers highly-accurate targeting of tumors and lesions virtually anywhere in the body. Typically requiring only one to five treatments, it achieves excellent results in fewer treatments than required by standard radiotherapy.
“Axesse raises our technological and treatment capabilities to an even higher level,” said Urbanic, lead physician on the Axesse team. “We are able to deliver higher and more conformal doses of radiation to the target in fewer fractions than with conventional radiation therapy techniques.” For patients, that means more convenience and a faster return to their daily activities.
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New cancer care center to start treating patients in November Linear accelerator installed at medical office in El Portal Plaza on G Street.
Lesion – Localized pathological change in a bodily organ or tissue.
Leukemia – Cancer of the blood. White blood cells may be produced in excessive amounts and are unable to work properly which weakens the immune system.
Linear accelerator (Linac) – A medical device, that can rotate about the patient, that generates various energies of x-rays and electron beams for radiation therapy treatment. more info on linacs…
Localization – In stereotaxy the determination of the precise position of the target in terms of the stereotactic coordinates
Lymph vessels – Vessels which collect fluid left in the tissues together with protein.
Lymphoma – Lymphoma is a general term for cancers that develop in the lymphatic system. They account for about 4 percent of all cases of cancer in this country. The most common type of lymphoma is called Hodgkin’s disease. All other lymphomas are grouped together and are called non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas.
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