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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ATLANTA — One of the world’s fastest and most accurate radiotherapy treatment systems will soon be available for cancer patients under care at Emory Healthcare’s Department of Radiation Oncology.
The TrueBeam radiation therapy system, built by California-based Varian Medical Systems, is engineered to deliver powerful cancer treatments while monitoring and compensating for tumor motion more quickly than other systems. This system allows for greater precision and faster imaging at lower radiation doses. TrueBeam can complete a treatment that once took 15 minutes in less than two minutes. This makes it possible to offer greater patient comfort by shortening treatments and to improve precision by leaving less time for tumor motion during dose delivery. Precision is measured in increments of less than a millimeter and accuracy checks are performed every ten milliseconds throughout the treatment.
The TrueBeam system will be available for patients beginning July 11, 2011. For more information, call Emory’s Department of Radiation Oncology at 404-778-3473.
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