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 ...

Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network has transitioned radiation therapy services out of the Greensburg, Pa.-based AHN Cancer Institute—Hempfield.

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 ...

Cancer patients of Allegheny Health Network undergoing radiation therapy will no longer be served at AHN Cancer Institute ...

External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT): This conventional approach delivers radiation from the external body using a linear accelerator (linac) machine. Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT ...

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.

Based at Southend Hospital, the next generation linear accelerator ... offers patients battling cancer more precise, targeted radiation therapy. Using beams of high energy X-rays or electrons ...

The new location at 9961 Estero Oaks Drive offers a new Varian TrueBeam, a linear accelerator that targets and destroys tumor ...