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Radiation therapy used to treat almost every type of solid tumor, including cancers of the Head & Neck, Brain, Breast, Cervix, Rectum, Larynx, Lung, Liver, Pancreas, Prostate, Skin, Spine, Stomach, Uterus, Urinary Bladder, Gall Bladder Vascular Malformation or soft tissue sarcomas. Radiation can also be used to treat leukemia and lymphoma (cancers of the blood-forming cells and lymphatic system, respectively).

Radiation dose to each site depends on a number of factors, including the type of cancer and whether there are tissues and organs nearby that may be damaged by radiation.

For some types of cancer, radiation may be given to areas that do not have evidence of cancer. This is done to prevent cancer cells from growing in the area receiving the radiation. This technique is called prophylactic radiation therapy.Radiation therapy can also be given to help reduce symptoms such as pain from cancer that has spread to the bones or other parts of the body. This is called palliative radiation therapy.

Radiotherapy is a non-invasive modality of cancer treatment required by 50 - 60% of patients. Depending on the size, site and pathology of the tumour, different application of Radiotherapy can be given as follows :

IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy)

This highly complex and promising techniques was started at Dharamshila Hospital in 2005. Now, IMRT is being delivered through VMAT techniques in a continuous arc around patient effectively, from infinite delivery angles; reducing the integral dose to one tenth and treatment time to few minutes. IMRT is used for tumours arising from Head and Neck, Brain, Lungs, Lymphomas and Gynecological cancers.

IGRT (Image Guided Radiation Therapy)

IGRT has been evolved to enable clinicians to treat the tumors that move along with respiration or have internal motion. IGRT provides a very effective means for mitigating the risk of tumor motion. Real time image guidance and adoptive radiation therapy involves constantly imaging the motion of the tumour during treatment delivery and changing beam delivery on the fly to compensate for unpredicted motion. IGRT is most suitable for tumors of the lung, prostate, urinary bladder, breast and mobile portion of tongue.

Stereotactic Radio surgery (SRS)

SRS is a non invasive procedure, best suited for treating intracranial tumours, vascular malformations and small extracranial lesions. Significantly higher surgical doses of radiation are delivered over significantly shorter treatment sessions (1 - 5) with a curative intent in contrast to treatment with cyberknife, which is palliative. The benefit lies in the potential for better tumour control with higher doses, as well as the sharper dose profile used to targeting cancerous tissue while sparing surrounding healthy critical structures.

Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)

SBRT is used for patients with spinal, paraspinal and lung tumors. It is mainly used for small tumors in the body where a high precision dose delivery is needed to avoid long term morbidity.

Brachytherapy

Brachy means near, therapy means treatment. Brachytherapy is delivered by placing the radiation sources (Ir192) near the tumour. Our multichannel Microselectron HDR with TCS remote after loading system is a dedicated machine which delivers radiation in and around tumour. Brachytherapy can be given as under :
  • Intracavitary for cancer cervix, cancer uterus.
  • Intra luminal for cancer Oesophagus and bronchus
  • Interstitial for Breast Cancer, soft tissue sarcoma (after initial surgery), prostate, pancreatic tumour etc.
  • Surface mould for superficial cancers specially skin cancer.

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