Delhi NCR Gets Its First & Most Advanced Tomotherapy For Efficient Cancer Treatment

With the launch of new generation TomoTherapy, the National Capital today took a leap forward in adoption of cutting edge technologies to provide world class facilities to patients suffering from various types of cancer. TomoTherapy is marked as the latest and the smartest radiation therapy to trick and treat the most complicated cancer tumors.  

BLK Cancer Centre, a leading provider of world class cancer care, has brought in the first Radixact 9 TomoTherapy. The cutting edge radiation machine provides several clinical benefits to cancer patients.

Highlighting the key features of TomoTherapy Dr. S Hukku, Chairman & Sr. Consultant, Radiation Oncology, BLK Super Speciality Hospital said, “TomoTherapy is now used as a curative treatment for cancer, the second leading cause of death across the world. With the most recent introduction of TomoTherapy, the radiation oncology has touched an all new high in the race of effective curative treatment for serious illnesses. BLK Super Specialty Hospital has acquired the latest version of the machine for TomoTherapy: Radixact 9, which enables a fully integrated platform for intelligent treatment planning, data management and treatment delivery.”

The most advanced version TomoTherapy : Radixact 9 - started functioning from today at the Hospital and the new machine ensures precision, speed, efficiency and ease of use to get better clinical outcomes.

“Using a refined x-ray beamline and next-generation imaging technology, the system delivers scalable and highly reliable treatments for patients with a variety of individual treatment needs. TomoTherapy is an all in one advanced form of cancer treatment that combines Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) with the accuracy of Computed Tomography (CT) scanning technology (IGRT- Image Guided Radiotherapy),” added Dr.  Hukku.

Advantages of Radixact 9 –Advance Tomotherapy System

•  Highest level of couch accuracy +/- 0.5 mm
•  Multimodality image fusion for better treatment planning 
• Adaptive Radiotherapy enables continuous reduction of treated area during the radiation course according to the reduction in tumor size. This reduces the dose to normal tissues markedly thereby reducing the side effects
• Best in class solution for re irradiation following a full course of Radiotherapy.
• Reduced treatment time per patient
• Four times the biggest field size can be treated as compared to the best conventional linear accelerator.

Dr. Shikha Halder, Director & Sr. Consultant, Radiation Oncology, BLK Super Speciality Hospital said, “With this system we can deliver both fractionated radiotherapy as well as SBRT and Radiosurgery.”