Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT)
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Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT)
Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) has added Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT) to its state-of-the-art radiation therapy program. IORT allows patients with a variety of cancer types to receive a single, powerful dose of radiation directly to a tumor site during surgery. This innovative technique helps to reduce treatment times and minimize side effects.
With IORT, our radiation oncologists deliver highly concentrated beams of radiation directly to the tumor bed immediately after tumor removal. This significantly increases the dose of radiation that can be delivered, while also shielding the surrounding healthy tissues and organs.
By delivering the equivalent of several weeks of standard radiation therapy in a single dose and treatment session, IORT helps to improve comfort, convenience and quality of life.
IORT also destroys microscopic tumor cells left behind by surgery, before the cells have a chance to divide or migrate to other areas of the body.
In addition, for patients who need to receive additional radiation therapy after surgery, IORT can be used as a "boost" to treat microscopic disease and shorten treatment time. An IORT boost may be a treatment option for prostate, rectal and gynecologic cancer patients, among others.
A patient must be a surgical candidate in order to be eligible for IORT. Also, this treatment is generally reserved for individuals with early stage disease.
Cancer Types Treated With IORT
At CTCA, Intraoperative Radiation Therapy may be used alone, or in combination with other therapies, to treat patients with a variety of cancer types, including but not limited to:
- Bile Duct
- Breast
- Cervical
- Colon
- Colorectal
- Esophageal
- Gallbladder
- Head & Neck
- Orbital
- Ovarian
- Pancreatic
- Prostate
- Rectal
- Skin
- Soft Tissue Sarcoma
- Tonsil
Radiation
- Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI)
- Amifostine
- Brachytherapy (see High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy )
- BrainLAB Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS)
- Calypso® 4D Localization System™/GPS for the Body®
- 3D Conformal Radiation
- Contura™ Multi-Lumen Balloon
- CyberKnife® VSI™ Robotic Radiosurgery System
- Deep Tissue Hyperthermia
- External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT)
- High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy
- Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)
- Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
- Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT)
- Intraoperative Ultrasound
- Large Bore CT/RT with Simulation
- Local Hyperthermia
- MammoSite® RTS
- Radiation Therapy
- Radioactive Protectants
- Radioiodine Ablation (see Systemic Radiation Therapy)
- Radiology Information System: All digital, paperless environment and voice recognition diction
- Radiosurgery
- RapidArc®
- Respiratory Gating
- Robotic Radiosurgery (see CyberKnife® VSI™ Robotic Radiosurgery System)
- Siemens / GE Multi-Modality Workstation
- Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) / Stereotactic Radiation Therapy (SRT)
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery in conjunction with Calypso®
- TheraSphere®
- TomoTherapy® HI-ART
- Total Body Irradiation (TBI)
- Total Marrow Irradiation (TMI)
- Trilogy™
- Varian Linear Accelerator with SRS, Respiratory Gating, RapidArc® and SBRT
- Varian Linear Accelerator iX with RapidArc®
- Varian Linear Accelerator Trilogy™ with RapidArc®
- Varian® Linear Accelerator TrueBeam®
