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With the advent
of new technologies, radiation therapy continues to become
a more exact, more directed form of treatment for cancer
patients.
Doses
of radiation, much higher than those used to produce a
standard x-ray image, can destroy the ability of cancer
cells to grow and divide.
Radiation therapy is often used in conjunction with
chemotherapy and/or surgery. Nearly half of all cancer
patients are treated with radiation at some point.
Cape Fear Valley Cancer Center is equipped with four
linear accelerators, which use radiation to treat cancer,
and two simulators, which are used to plan the cancer
treatment.
The technologies lists below are used to plan or
deliver higher doses of radiation to a tumor while
minimizing exposure to healthy tissues. Delivering
higher doses of radiation means that patients can expect to have lower rates of tumor recurrence.
For
patients fighting cancer and clinicians treating it, this
precision is power. |
