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You deserve the best possible treatment for your lung cancer. Find a physician in your area offering the Radixact System — and find out if Radixact treatment is right for you.
One of the biggest challenges in lung cancer treatment remains effectively treating the cancer, while minimizing dose to the many sensitive tissues and vital organs that surround the lungs. Precision is critical because the lungs are the center of a person’s respiratory system and play a key role in their ability to breathe. The Radixact® System provides the flexibility to adapt radiation therapy to any lung cancer patient’s anatomy. The system offers a non-surgical option for treating lung cancer designed to maximize the radiation delivered to the cancerous tumor while minimizing dose to healthy tissues. This precision helps to improve the effectiveness of the cancer treatment, while reducing the risk of side effects to protect your quality of life both during and after treatment.
The Radixact System, the next-generation TomoTherapy® platform, has been designed to enable doctors to more effectively and efficiently deliver precise radiation treatments to more patients. The TomoTherapy platform represented a dramatic advance in the radiation oncology field, as the only system specifically designed for integrated 3D daily image-guidance with intensity modulated radiation therapy (IG-IMRT) that will help you fight your cancer.
You deserve the best possible treatment for your lung cancer. Find a physician in your area offering the Radixact System — and find out if Radixact treatment is right for you.
The Radixact System, the next-generation TomoTherapy platform, is one of the most integrated, advanced systems for comprehensive cancer treatment available today, enabling precise delivery of simple-to-complex treatments for the full spectrum of lung cancer patients — ranging from early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to post-surgery treatment of mesothelioma. The TomoTherapy technology is supported by published clinical studies:
When you breathe, your torso moves. This means that a lung tumor — or any target in or near the lungs — will continuously move throughout the course of treatment delivery. Unlike any other conventional radiation device, the Radixact System with Synchrony uses the world’s only real-time motion synchronization technology to continuously track the target, and automatically adapt and synchronize the radiation beam with movement of the target in real-time throughout the entire treatment session. This helps to ensures the radiation dose is delivered to the target — maximizing treatment effectiveness while minimizing dose to surrounding tissues to reduce the incidence of side effects. And unlike other conventional radiotherapy options, the Radixact System does not require uncomfortable patient restraints or inefficient gating techniques. You can relax and breathe normally.
*The Synchrony technology is an optional upgrade available for purchase by hospitals.
While surgery is often considered the gold standard of treatment, its application may be limited by the patient’s health and the stage and location of the tumor. Treatments with the Radixact System are completely non-surgical, non-invasive and pain-free. This makes the Radixact System a good treatment option when more invasive techniques are deemed inappropriate or too risky. Radixact treatment may also be an option in cases where patients cannot undergo surgical procedures as a result of:
Treatment with the Radixact System is an outpatient procedure that does not require incisions or general anesthesia. Most patients will not require hospitalization or a long recovery time.
Because the precise targeting of the Radixact System significantly reduces irradiation of surrounding healthy tissues, Radixact can be a powerful treatment option for a wider range of lung cancer patients, including patients who have previously undergone radiation or surgical procedures, and experience a recurrence.
The Radixact System, the next-generation TomoTherapy platform, maximizes radiation delivered to the target — while helping to minimize radiation dose to surrounding healthy tissues. The result is highly personalized treatment designed to significantly reduce the risk of the side effects that too often disrupt the lives of patients during and after treatment. The Radixact System is one of the most integrated, advanced systems for comprehensive cancer treatment available today, enabling precise delivery of treatments for the full spectrum of lung cancer patients — ranging from early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to post-surgery treatment of mesothelioma.
Radixact treatment is an outpatient procedure that does not require incisions, or general anesthesia. Most patients will not require hospitalization or a long recovery period.
References:
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2 Arcangeli S, Falcinelli L, Bracci S et al. “Treatment outcomes and patterns of radiologic appearance after hypofractionated image-guided radiotherapy delivered with helical tomotherapy (HHT) for lung tumours.” Br J Radiol. 2017 Mar;90(1071):20160853. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20160853.
3 Minatel E, Trovo M, Polesel J et al. “Radical pleurectomy/decortication followed by high dose of radiation therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma. Final results with long-term follow-up.” Lung Cancer. 2014 Jan;83(1):78-82. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2013.10.013.
4 Sole CV, Lopez Guerra JL, Matute R et al. “Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy delivered by image-guided helical tomotherapy for extracranial oligometastases.” Clin Transl Oncol. 2013 Jun;15(6):484-91. doi: 10.1007/s12094-012-0956-2.
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