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A promising new therapy that is being used at an Arkansas medical clinic is showing very good results as an alternative to the normal surgical, chemo, radiation therapy. Still in it's infancy and being applied to cancers that are no more than four inches under the skin surface, it has shown remarkable results for the treating of breast cancer and skin cancer.

Light Induced Enhanced Selective Hyperthermia is the name of the therapy. The procedure is non-invasive although access to an affected site might involve surgical methods if used for internal organs. The procedure involves laser beams which reduce the chance of cancer cells migrating to other parts of the body if you relied on the current method of surgically removing them.

An enhancing agent is directly injected into the malignant growth and instantly spreads throughout the entire mass of the unwanted growth. This enhancing agent increases the cells sensitivity to the laser light used in the treatment, ensuring that all the "bad cells" are treated. The enhancing agent is completely soluble and has been compared to a saline solution as far as side affects. Once the enhancing agent is applied, the laser is then used on just those cells to destroy them with a beam of high temperature.

Several sessions are usually necessary to completely kill all of the cancer cells. These sessions are usually done on a daily routine outpatient visit to the clinic. The number of visits necessary depends on the type of cancer and the size of the growth. The internal breast cancers have shown, after therapy that the cells left inside are dead and it is then up to your body to expel them in it's normal fashion. A follow-up with independent clinical tests every three months is essential to prove that the cancer is indeed gone.

If there is a re-occurrence, the therapy can be applied again with no undue harm to the patient since there is no bleeding, no chemicals are being used to affect the immune system and there is no need for harmful drugs afterwards. Most patients leave the office within an hour or two feeling great! How does that compare to the standard methods of treating breast cancer.

The company that is providing this therapy has a patent for the protocol to insure that the way that it is implemented is followed correctly for best results. I expect that more medical offices will be offering this procedure in the near future, but for now the therapy is available at the Lase Med Inc office in Arkansas.

Jackie Martin has researched alternative/natural medicine for treatment of cancer for the past five years. Her blog: When Cancer Hits Home reports many of her findings as well as her reports of the journeys of family members diagnosed with this disease.
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by VantageOncology

The treatment of cancer and cancerous tumors has advanced a great deal in the last several years. Survival rates are much higher than they were just a decade ago thanks to advances in medical technology, diagnosis, and treatment which give radiation oncologists the tools needed in the quest to reduce cancer-related mortality until it is no longer a threat.

Among the advances in radiotherapy are methods such as IGRT (Image Guided Radiation Therapy), IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy), and TomoTherapy.

IGRT

Image-guided radiation therapy (or image-guided radiotherapy) is radiation treatment delivered with the guidance of imaging equipment.

Cancerous tumors can sometimes move due to a patient's normal activities or just from being moved around the treatment table. By taking an image of the tumor just prior to treatment, the tumor's location can be precisely confirmed, allowing the delivery of radiation to be delivered directly to the tumor instead of to surrounding healthy tissue.

IMRT

Intensity modulated radiotherapy uses a system of shields in addition to other advanced methodology to protect healthy tissue, maximizing radiation delivery to the tumor.

IMRT delivers thousands of tiny beams from different angles, delivering high doses that are concave in shape, sparing normal tissue that is extremely close to and surrounded by a tumor. This is extremely effective for small, stationary tumors that are surrounded by large amounts of healthy tissue, which can include tumors in the brain, head and neck, prostate, or spinal cord.

TomoTherapy

TomoTherapy delivers a very sophisticated IMRT to combine treatment planning, CT image-guided patient positioning, and treatment delivery into a single integrated system. TomoTherapy allows the radiation oncologist to adjust the radiation beam to precisely target the tumor according to its size, shape, and location.

Tumor position can be verified before each treatment session, allowing on-the-fly adjustments to ensure accurate radiation delivery.

The goal of advancing radiotherapy technology, as it has always been in oncology, is to deliver lethal radiation directly to the tumor, spare as much healthy tissue as possible, and decrease the impact on a patient's quality of life.

Vantage Oncology is dedicated to this idea of improving care for patients and their families who are affected by cancer. Our commitment to radiosurgery and radiotherapy continues as we search for newer and better ways to treat cancer and improve the lives of cancer survivors.

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Vantage Oncology is dedicated to this idea of improving care for patients and their families who are affected by cancer. Our commitment to radiosurgery and radiotherapy continues as we search for newer and better ways to treat cancer and improve the lives of cancer survivors.

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