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Revolutionizing cancer treatment with SCINTIX radiotherapy
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Radiation oncology, or radiation therapy/radiotherapy, is an effective form of treatment for many types of cancers. Doctors use high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Using radiotherapy to treat tumors that are changing position and spreading in the body is often challenging, however, and may prohibit you from undergoing radiotherapy. However, by combining our expertise and next-generation radiotherapy methods, our specialists can track moving tumors, enabling us to adjust and target treatment to achieve optimal results for you and to spare normal tissue from radiation exposure.
Keck Medicine of USC is the first and only university-based academic medical center in Southern California to offer groundbreaking SCINTIX technology using the RefleXion X1 machine for patients with primary lung cancers and any metastatic cancers.
This biology-guided radiotherapy, which combines PET imaging and stereotactic radiotherapy, enables our radiation oncologists to target and control delivery of radiotherapy even to tumors that are moving, while sparing healthy tissue. Our radiation oncologists apply a radiotracer to tumors, using positron emissions to then track tumor locations and to finalize a radiotherapy treatment plan. Treatment then commences, controlling and directing radiation delivery accordingly in real-time.
Thanks to this breakthrough, you no longer need to undergo multiple courses of radiation to address different sites of disease if you have metastatic cancer. By tracking tumor biology and addressing multiple tumor locations, our experts can deliver care more efficiently to you. Treatment can also be combined with chemotherapy, immunotherapy and targeted drugs to improve your outcome.
Our multidisciplinary team of experts coordinates to optimize your treatment and outcomes. We have an exceptional team of radiation oncologists, medical physicists, dosimetrists, radiation therapists and nurses, all of whom harness the latest advancements in radiation oncology. We work collaboratively with our surgical oncologists, medical oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, nutritionists and social workers to create a treatment plan tailored to your unique needs.
We are the ninth installation institution in the country and the world to adopt breakthrough SCINTIX technology.
We are one of only nine hospitals in the world to offer a dual-treatment radiotherapy platform that treats all stages of cancer.
We are one of just three clinical sites in California and on the West Coast delivering SCINTIX therapy for treating both early- and late-stage cancers.
Our Inhouse Point of Care (Lab) Testing streamlines required labs for certain diagnostic CT and PET CT studies, giving you faster results.
No, radiation therapy is painless. You won’t feel, see, smell or taste the radiation.
No, radiation therapy does not make you radioactive. The radiation is only produced by the machine during treatment.
The most common side effects are fatigue and skin changes. Other side effects include hair loss, appetite changes and diarrhea.
Each treatment session takes a few minutes, but you should allow 30 minutes for the entire session.
Treatments are usually scheduled every day, except for weekends.
You can drive yourself home if you feel up to it, unless your doctor tells you not to.
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