St. John''s C.H. "Chub" O''Reilly Cancer Center offers patients the latest in technology and treatment options, including the region''s only TomoTherapy and Cyberknife treatments. Our team of physicians and staff work together to coordinate the entire aspect of patient care including prevention and early detection, patient education and support services, and clinical trials and research.
St. John''s C.H. ''Chub'' O''Reilly Cancer Center began offering TomoTherapy, one of the most sophisticated cancer therapies available, in June 2008. TomoTherapy is a CT image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) and intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) delivery system, which is the new standard for radiation therapy for certain tumors.
Because the radiation source rotates around the patient, it can deliver radiation with extreme flexibility. Built-in daily CT imaging ensures significant precision. This machine allows treatments that are difficult or impossible for conventional radiotherapy machines to deliver, such as treating tumors in the lung while minimizing damage to normal lung tissue. It also allows patients to be treated for different cancerous sites at the same time. Potential TomoTherapy patients include those with certain types of lung cancer, head and neck tumors, prostate cancer, recurrent tumors with prior history of radiation therapy and tumors within close proximity of normal critical tissues.