Ascension St. Marys of Saginaw adds high-tech cancer fighting tool – MLive.com

SAGINAW, MI - A Saginaw hospital is offering a new fast and accurate option for cancer treatments.

Ascension St. Marys Seton Cancer Institute in Saginaw, 800 S. Washington, has announced the addition of a new TrueBeam Radiotherapy System as a part of Ascensions $50 million investment in its northern health ministries.

TrueBeam enables us to treat even the most challenging cases with tremendous speed and precision, said Dr. Salam Yanek, radiation oncologist at Ascension St. Marys Seton Cancer Institute. This system will make it possible for us to offer fast, more targeted treatments for tumors, even those that move when the patient breathes, such as lung tumors.

The TrueBeam system is engineered to deliver powerful cancer treatments with pinpoint accuracy and precision, according to Ascension. The technology allows cancer treatment teams to select the optimal treatment for different types of cancer while enabling them to use advanced radiotherapy options, as needed.

Dr. Charbel Habib, medical physicist at Ascension St. Marys Seton Cancer Institute and clinical assistant professor at Central Michigan University School of Medicine said, This evolutionary technology is able to automatically synchronize imaging, beam shaping and dose delivery, while performing accuracy checks every ten milliseconds throughout the entire treatment. It represents a quantum leap in our ability to help people fight cancer.

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