"The cancer burden in
"Research results are pointing to the clinical value of hypofractionation for a variety of malignancies, including prostate, breast, and lung cancers," adds
A versatile system that can operate effectively in highly distributed, suburb-based radiotherapy clinics that are part of a larger network is also valuable, Christodouleas says.
"In cancer care, we're seeing a shift in which networks are siting many machines to cover large geographic areas to bring treatment closer to where people live," he observes. "These networks need delivery systems that can handle both technically demanding treatments like SBRT and also more conventional IGRT regimens. Harmony was built as an efficient, versatile linear accelerator allowing clinicians to treat more patients with high-quality precision radiation therapy."
Harmony will provide enhanced:
- Productivity: the new FastTrack in-room experience reduces patient setup time by as much as 50 percent.** Combined with further workflow enhancements, treatment slots can be reduced by up to 25 percent**, enabling clinicians to deliver high-quality cancer care to more patients.
- Precision: a best-in-class multi-leaf collimator provides one-millimeter resolution beam-shaping across the full 40 cm X 40 cm field size, which provides "shrink-wrapped" sub-millimeter conformality around the tumor target.
- Versatility: the option of multiple energies, treatment techniques and imaging modalities, providing the versatility needed to treat the most common indications, including breast, lung, pelvic and head-and-neck cancers.
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