RandyW Posted January 8, 2008 Posted January 8, 2008 Cancer Center Using New Radiation Therapy Equipment The June E. Nylen Cancer Center has a new piece of equipment that will help treat cancer in Siouxland. The "Trilogy" is a new radiation therapy equipment purchased for $3.5-million. The equipment has three uses, stereotactic radiosurgery... image-guided radiation therapy... and intensity modulated radiation therapy. Doctors say this treatment is more precise for cancers of the lung, prostate and breast. "This enables use to do a CT scan while the patient is being treated both before and during and this will help us to visualize our target better and allow us to give a more focused type of radiation," said Dr. Greg Naden, radiation oncologist. The "Trilogy" will also offer neurosurgeons another treatment options for brain tumors. Instead of a patient having to have brain surgery... they can be treated as an outpatient and spend less time in recovery Quote
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