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Treatment Options
 Our team of radiation and medical oncologists, physicists, radiation therapists and dosimetrists work together to provide you with a comprehensive treatment plan. St. Mary's of Michigan Seton Cancer Institute offers various treatment services at five convenient locations.
Surgery
Medical Oncology
- Chemotherapy - the use of drugs to destroy cancer cells
Radiation Oncology
- TomoTherapy - the most advanced radiation delivery system available. Click here for more information on TomoTherapy.
- 3D treatment planning - sophisticated computer software that helps us determine the exact volume, shape, and location of tumors.
- Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) - With Primus, Tomotherapy and Artiste systems. The radiation treatment that allows us to change the intensity of the radiation beams. This allows us to "paint" the radiation where it needs to be improving our ability to focus on the cancerous cells, maximizing the does to the tumor while minimizing the does to surrounding tissues and critical structures.
- Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) - With CyberKnife and Tomotherapy systems. This is a method of delivering small beams of high dosage radiation for treating small tumors instead of surgically removing the cancer. It is often used for inoperable tumors or for patients who chose radiation over traditional surgery due to their perferences or conditions which prohibit surgery. We are the only facility in the region with the advanced specialized SRS machine CyberKnife.
- Image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) with CyberKnife, Tomotherapy, Artiste and the NOMOS BAT system . This is a radiation treatment method that provides target visualization, allowing us to more accurately visulaize the tumor and surrounding structures - which can change daily. We use this prior to (and during treatment with CyberKnife) so that we can more accurately treat the tumor. This is especially important for lung or prostate cancers because tumor and organ locations can change between treatments.
- External beam radiotherapy - the most common form of radiation therapy where a patient lies on a couch and an external source radiation is pointed at a particular part of the body.
- High dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy and low dose rate (LDR) brachytherapy - such as mammosite (breast) and gliasite (brain) are methods of delivering radiation by inserting a radioactive source temporarily into the body through a tube or balloon that is placed near the cancer.
- Prostate seed implants - a method of delivering radiation to the prostate by implanting permanent radioactive seeds into the prostate. The seeds slowly radiate the cancer over a long period of time.
Clinical trials
- Treatment
- Prevention and control
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