Using this advanced technology enables a range
of radiation therapy treatments for cancer, so our expert doctors can choose the best treatment for each patient.
She works in a 3D Dosimetry lab under Dr. Mark Oldham where she is helping to develop and characterize an exciting
new radiation therapy treatment tool, which is a new radiochromic bolus that changes color when it is irradiated.
Working with colleagues at the University of Chicago, our experts created a new combination chemotherapy and
radiation therapy treatment regimen that helps some patients with advanced head and neck cancer avoid major surgery.
Concerned citizens are working to pass a federal law that would require states to set educational and certification standards for personnel performing medical imaging exams and
providing radiation therapy treatments.
IGRT is the process of using frequent imaging, typically performed in the treatment room prior to radiation delivery, throughout a patient's course
of radiation therapy treatment to improve localization of the target and normal structures, which allows for more precise and accurate radiation delivery.
It's still very early, but this system has the potential to become the standard way that
radiation therapy treatments are done in lung cancer patients,» Vinogradskiy says.
At PetCure Oncology,
every radiation therapy treatment plan is overseen and reviewed by two board - certified radiation oncologists.
Dosimetrists are health professionals specialized in oncology and responsible for planning
radiation therapy treatment.