NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center has opened its new Irving Radiation Oncology Center, part of the medical center¹s Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. The 12,500-square-foot facility provides leading-edge precision radiation therapies and the most advanced diagnostic imaging for children and adults with cancer.
The center’s new imaging technology offers cancer treatments that more precisely target tumors and spare healthy cells from unnecessary radiation exposure. The new center is equipped with the TrueBeam system from Varian Medical Systems, which offers high-precision image-guided radiotherapy and radiosurgery; and the Siemens ARTISTE, which allows for in-room real-time imaging that can see the tumor response and biological behavior as the patient is being treated.
The new technology allows clinicians to safely and precisely target smaller tumor volumes with higher dose radiation to areas such as head and neck, lung, breast, abdomen, spine, and prostate.
