What is it about?
New version of tomotherapy radiation treatment unit allows for movement of the jaws. The way to treat metastases to larger dose and the whole brain to the dose sufficient to prevent regrowth of cancer is proposed.
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Why is it important?
The cancer treatment for brain metastases can be made faster and with less damage to healthy tissues.
Perspectives
This idea can be applied for other cancer cases where we need to delivery different levels of radiation.
Dr Slav Yartsev
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This page is a summary of: Optimization of brain metastases radiotherapy with TomoHDA, Medical Dosimetry, January 2017, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2016.11.003.
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