Many times, patients wonder what’s next for them after cancer treatment. As so much energy and focus goes into healing the cancer, or curing the cancer, not much energy is left to consider what will happen after the cancer is treated. Your life will be different, and yet, in some ways, the exact same. The… Read More
IMRT Radiation: What Is It? IMRT radiation, which is also called Intensity modulated radiation therapy, has revolutionized cancer care by giving the ability to radiation doctors to deliver radiation to the target area while minimizing damage to surrounding normal tissues. Prior to the introduction of IMRT radiation, radiation doctors utilized a technique called 3 dimension… Read More
Cyberknife Radiosurgery Brief History: Radiation therapy has been utilized for over a century in the treatment of cancer. Traditional radiation treatments involve machines called Linear Accelerators which produce intense, high energy x-ray beams which when aimed to any part of the body will destroy tumors. Since, there is a significant dose of radiation that is… Read More
