A ribbon cutting was held Tuesday at Portneuf Cancer Center to unveil its new and improved linear accelerator, which uses radiation therapy to treat cancer. “Portneuf is thrilled to add this ...

It was a radiation therapy machine. In layman’s terms it was a “cancer zapper”; a linear accelerator with a human as its target. Using X-rays or a beam of electrons, radiation therapy ...

Most radiation therapy uses machines called linear accelerators. These machines direct high-energy x rays at specific cancer cells in a patient's body, shrinking or removing them. Radiation therapists ...

N.M. Virani Wockhardt Hospitals Launches URJA a Cutting-Edge LINAC Technology for Advanced Cancer Treatment in Saurashtra ...

It is applied by a team of qualified experts with the appropriate education and many years of experience in radiation oncology, medical physics and radiation therapy technology ... created through the ...

They will continue to provide healthcare services to patients at both centres, which together have a total of four linear accelerators, essential for delivering external-beam radiation therapy.

Teletherapy refers to radiation therapy given by an external radiation source at ... which delivers high energy gamma rays, or a linear accelerator, which can deliver high-energy X-rays or electrons.

Mevion Medical Systems, the leader in compact proton therapy solutions, proudly announces the delivery of its first MEVION ...