External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT)
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External beam radiation therapy (EBRT) is a type of radiation therapy that directs a beam of radiation from outside your body at cancerous tissues within your body. EBRT delivers high-energy rays to tumors, using a special X-ray machine called a linear accelerator. This machine allows radiation to be delivered from any angle and shapes radiation beams to the contour of the tumor.
Advantages of External Beam Radiation Therapy
Thanks to significant advancements in computer hardware and software, radiation treatment, planning and delivery have changed dramatically in recent years.
Our state-of-the-art radiation technology enables our oncologists to more accurately target a tumor with higher doses of radiation, while minimizing damage to your healthy tissue and nearby organs. As a result, EBRT helps to lower the risk of side effects typically associated with radiation treatment.
Some additional advantages of EBRT include:
- It’s a fast, painless outpatient procedure. A typical radiation treatment lasts a few minutes. It is administered over a period of six to eight weeks, typically five days a week.
- It does not carry the standard risks or complications of surgery, such as surgical bleeding, post-operative pain, or the risk of stroke, heart attack or blood clot.
- Unlike chemotherapy, which circulates through the body, ERBT is targeted to the area being treated.
Radiation Therapy
- 3D Conformal Radiation
- Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI)
- BrainLAB SRS
- Calypso® 4D Localization System™
- Contura™
- Cyberknife (see Stereotactic Radiosurgery)
- Deep Tissue Hyperthermia
- External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT)
- Gamma Knife (see Stereotactic Radiosurgery)
- High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy
- Hyperthermia (also see Local Hyperthermia, Deep Tissue Hyperthermia)
- Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
- Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)
- Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT)
- LightSpeed RT
- Local Hyperthermia
- MammoSite® RTS
- Radioactive Protectants
- Rapid Arc™
- Respiratory Gating
- Radioiodine Ablation (see Systemic Radiation Therapy)
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS)
- Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)
- Systemic Radiation Therapy
- TheraSphere®
- TomoTherapy® HI-ART
- Total Body Irradiation (TBI)
- Total Marrow Irradiation (TMI)
- Trilogy™
