Serving a region of 650,000 inhabitants in southern, central, and western Puerto Rico, Caribbean Imaging and Radiation Therapy Center has acquired Elekta’s Versa HD system. Versa HD offers clinicians the versatility to deliver conventional therapies to treat a wide range of tumors throughout the body while also enabling treatment of highly complex cancers that require extreme targeting precision.
CIRT physicians anticipate the first patient to be treated with Versa HD in late July.
Stereotactic program on horizon?CIRT’s acquisition of Versa HD also will be the clinic’s inroad into high-dose, highly targeted stereotactic treatments, he adds.
The most common cases treated at CIRT, which treats 65 patients a day, are breast and prostate cancers.
