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A New Standard in Radiation Therapy
If you need radiation therapy, it’s important to ensure the radiation reaches the right place, while avoiding vital organs such as the heart. To do this, a variety of methods are used to ensure you are in the right place before and during treatment. These methods range from tattooing your body and taking additional X-Rays to using devices that limit movement of certain areas of the body.
AlignRT® is a new technology which ensures that you are positioned correctly before and during treatment. By tracking your skin surface in real time using 3D camera technology, AlignRT® helps make sure that you are in the intended position, with high accuracy, and often with fewer bothersome devices, providing both comfort and safety. If you move even a millimeter, radiation can be automatically shut off until you are back in the correct position. AlignRT® can be used across all cancer sites and can eliminate the need for tattoos or skin marks for certain patients.
AlignRT® is available in 80% of the US News & World Report “Best 50 Hospitals for Cancer”.
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Radiation Tattoos and Marks – May Be Optional
Drawing marks on a patient’s skin, or marking dots with a permanent tattoo has been a common step in the process of radiation therapy.
The role of the marks and tattoos was historically to allow your radiation team to know exactly where to treat each day. These small tattoos and skin marks can provide alignment to the desired treatment area and are used as a guide at each of your radiation treatment visits. On average, patients receive three to four marks.
In certain cases, AlignRT can eliminate the need for tattoos and permanent markers.
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Meet Alison
A patient’s words … “I feel very lucky to have had access to technology like this during my treatment. If I’d have known the benefits before, I would have felt even more empowered and reassured before radiation therapy.” – Alison Young
Meet Maureen
“Much to my surprise they weren’t rub on….tattoos. Because they were in tender areas it was a difficult experience..it was very, very painful” – Maureen Roadman
Meet Margarita
Tattoos and permanent markers – there may be another option “When I heard I would be receiving SGRT (surface guided radiation therapy, with AlignRT®), I was incredibly relieved. My scars were already fading but a tattoo would have remained, and I wanted to move on with my life.” “For me and I’m sure many women, I wanted to put the cancer behind me, so not having to look at a tattoo every day is a big positive.”
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