Funded in part by donations from the community and dedicated in March 1997, the Oncology Center at Havasu Regional Medical Center is a state-of-the-art facility that’s on the forefront in the fight against cancer. The Center’s board certified Radiation Oncologist and a fully licensed staff offer a variety of treatment options using both hi-tech equipment and procedures.
For example, Prostate Brachytherapy, a treatment for prostate cancer, uses tiny radioactive “seeds,” about the size of a grain of rice, that are implanted into the treatment area to emit very low energy radiation. The Oncology Center also features a state-of-the-art Simulator, a specialized X-ray system that helps our radiologist pinpoint the exact target area to receive radiation therapy.
In addition, our Linear Accelerator delivers a uniform dose of high-energy x-rays that can destroy cancer cells while leaving the surrounding normal tissue untouched.
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Havasu Regional Medical Center is now offering patients access to state of the art cancer treatments with new technology that enables clinicians to escalate the dose of cancer-killing radiation to tumors while minimizing complications in surrounding healthy tissue. The new radiotherapy system, called the Clinic® iX Linear Accelerator from Varian Medical Systems, is capable of delivering IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy) and is the most precise and sophisticated treatment in the world.
Clinicians at Havasu Regional Medical Center will use the Clinic® iX Linear Accelerator to treat patients with prostate, breast, head and neck, lung, pancreatic and other cancers where precisely placed beams can be focused to carefully target tumor cells without harming surrounding healthy tissue.
The new linear accelerator also has an On-Board Imager, which is capable of real-time tumor tracking and automated patient positioning, which enables clinicians to concentrate radiation doses on the tumor. This means that high doses of radiation can be delivered quickly and with great precision, which translates into faster treatments and the potential for better outcomes.
Enhancing the dose concentrations to the tumor gives clinicians a much greater chance of completely eradicating the tumor, rather than simply causing a temporary regression. Cancer cells are fast-replicating by nature, so any damage to the genetic structure of these cells by radiation is incredibly powerful. In addition, increased optimization enables clinicians to use radiation to treat areas that would have been considered too risky just a few years ago.
