Finding the moving target...as tumors do move....great new technology that helps spare other healthy body parts with unnecessary radiation...BD
SAVANNAH, Ga. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- How do you hit a moving target when that target is a tumor? A breakthrough in radiation treatment is giving doctors a new, more accurate way to attack tumors that uses four-dimensional imaging to zero-in on cancer.
And because tumors move, before every treatment, the 4-D scan updates the location of the tumor. Then the radiation can be realigned to hit the target.
"Not only is the precision better but we’re now able to escalate the dose
to such a degree that we can cure more cancers. One of the more famous radiation oncologists in the world paraphrased that this is the most significant advance in cancer management in the last 25 years," Dr. Geffen says.
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