St. Luke’s Medical Center-Global City at the Forefront of Cancer Treatment
St. Luke’s Medical Center – Global City has finally acquired an innovative system that enables a radically different approach to treat cancer with image-guided radiotherapy!
PHOTO Elmer B. Domingo, grabbed from Wikimedia Commons
Created by Varian Medical Systems and distributed by Siemens Healthineers in the Philippines, the TrueBeam system will enable doctors to treat even the most challenging cases with unprecedented speed and precision. The TrueBeam system can complete a treatment commensurately faster, making it possible to deliver accurate image-guided treatments in just a few minutes per day with dose delivery rates that are 40–140 percent higher than earlier generations of Varian technology.
It uniquely integrates new imaging and motion management technologies within a sophisticated new architecture that makes it possible to deliver treatments more quickly while monitoring and compensating for tumor motion, opening the door to new possibilities for the treatment of challenging cases such as cancers in the lung, breast, abdomen, and head and neck, as well as other cancers that are treatable with radiotherapy.
For lung and other tumors subject to respiratory motion, TrueBeam offers gated RapidArc® radiotherapy, which makes it possible to monitor the patient’s breathing and compensate for tumor motion while quickly delivering dose during a continuous rotation around the patient.
As cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality in the Philippines, St. Luke’s Global City promises to give patients a premium comfort in every treatment. With TrueBeam, we have optimal treatment for every type of cancer with a wider spectrum of advanced radiotherapy treatment options to many more patients. It represents a quantum leap in our ability to help people fight cancer.
This is a press release. Minor edits were made prior to publishing. Photos grabbed from St. Luke’s website.
