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Radiation Oncology department is a state of art oncology center at Yenepoya Medical College Hospital ( YMCH) that is supported by TATA trust. It was inaugurated in April 2022. Since April 2022,780 patients were treated on external radiotherapy and 40 patients were treated on Brachytherapy. The department is adequately staffed with Radiation Oncologists, Medical Physicists, Radiation Safety Officers, Residents and supporting staffs.
It has comprehensive state of art Radiotherapy Equipments includes Varian TrueBeam, GammaMedplus iX HDR brachytherapy and PET-CT simulator. The truebeam has capable of delivering 3DCRT, IMRT, VMAT (Rapid Arc), IGRT and gated Treatment using 5 Photon energies and 5 Electron energies.
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This technique allows giving the highest possible dose of radiation to the tumor, while sparing the normal tissue as much as possible.
This technique is an advanced type of radiation therapy technique using conformal beams for the tumors thereby sparing the nearby organs effectively.
In VMAT (Rapid Arc) technique, the linear accelerator rotates around the patient during which the beam is modulated to deliver as desired volume. This technique delivers the highly shaped conformal beam to tumors in a very short time.
IGRT is a Guidance technique to ensure the patient position, tumor as well as organ locations precisely by using either an on board X-ray image or a cone beam CT image before delivery of the radiation dose. The verified locations of the tumor can be positioned using 6D (6-Dimensional) couch. This technique enables to deliver the highly shaped IMRT and VMAT beams to tumor accurately in order to achieve the expected clinical goals.
Respiratory Gating and motion management is a gating technique that monitors breathing movement of the patient during CT as well as Treatment. It follows the breathing pattern of the patient and controls the radiation beam as per the tumor movement. It minimizes radiation exposure to normal tissues, which is useful for treating lung and liver tumors.
Stereotactic Radio Surgery (SRS) is a technique to deliver a high dose to the tumor in a single fraction by using either Image guidance based IMRT or Rapid Arc.
Stereotactic Radio Therapy (SRT) and Stereotactic Body Radio Therapy (SBRT) are the techniques used to deliver high dose to the tumors in fewer fractions by using either Image guidance based IMRT or Rapid Arc.
Flattening Filter Free beam also called as True Beam with higher dose rate can be used in SRS/SRT/SBRT treatment plans to deliver highly conformal dose in a shorter time.
For immune suppressed patient treatments, irradiation of the blood and its products can be done.
TBI is used along with chemotherapy to destroy diseased cells in the body, blood, and bone marrow. It may also be used to suppress or lower the immune system to allow the donor bone marrow to engraft.
(Gamma MedPlus-iX HDR unit)
Brachytherapy is a type of internal radiation therapy in which a small radiation source (Iridium-192) is placed inside or in close proximity to the tumor.
Brachytherapy is often used to treat cancers of the head and neck, breast, cervix, prostate, and esophagus.
Brachytherapy allows delivering higher doses of radiation to more-specific areas (in or near the tumor).
The PET-CT images enable better delineation of the tumor based on the metabolic activity.
This system has the capable of acquiring 4DCT images which are used for gating treatment.
