Sentences with phrase «nearby healthy tissue»

Sedation is often used to help patients stay in the exact position needed so radiation hits the tumor and not nearby healthy tissue.

IMRT is highly precise and can «shape» the radiation beam more closely to the cancerous tissue, thus sparing nearby healthy tissue.

The investigators found that fluorocoxib A exhibited focal accumulation in neovascular lesions with minimal accumulation in nearby healthy tissue.

Proton therapy delivers high radiation doses directly to the brain tumor site, with no damage to nearby healthy tissue.

They also stop once they hit the target rather than continuing through the body, allowing them to deposit higher doses of radiation at the selected site while minimizing damage to nearby healthy tissue and the short - and long - term side effects that can result.

We focus on providing treatments that effectively target tumors while minimizing radiation exposure to nearby healthy tissues.

These technologies enable your care team to safely direct more radiation to cancer cells and less to nearby healthy tissues and in less time than many older technologies.