Image-Guided Radiation Therapy is one of the most advanced treatments for cancers, such as prostate, breast, lung and skin cancer. IGRT enables Gulf Coast Cancer Centers’ radiation oncologists to obtain high-resolution X-ray images to pinpoint exact tumor sites, adjust patient positioning when necessary and complete a treatment, all within standard treatment time.
IGRT also allows our oncologists to create treatment plans with smaller margins around tumor volumes. That, in turn, enables doctors to deliver higher doses to the tumor, while reducing the dose to nearby critical structures and healthy tissues.
IGRT (Image-Guided Radiation Therapy)
- Uses state-of-the art imaging and radiotherapy techniques
- Improves the precision and effectiveness of cancer treatments
- Gives doctors the ability to accurately track and adjust for tumor movements at the moment of treatment, due to normal internal organ function like breathing and digestion.
- Allows for more dynamic, quicker treatment times.
- Electronic portal imaging device allows the room time for treatment to be minimized, and it allows for portable, all digital films of patients.
- Allows higher doses of radiation to cancer tissues while sparing normal adjacent structures; expected to provide increased treatment success in the future
- Available at all Gulf Coast Cancer Centers’ locations – Brewton, Foley, Gulf Shores, Daphne and Monroeville
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