Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)
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Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy
Dr. Michael Payne, a radiation oncologist at Cancer Treatment Centers of America, discusses Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy.
CTCA cancer doctors use a form of radiation therapy called Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) to treat tumors in the lungs, liver, pancreas, spine, and other areas of the body with pinpoint accuracy.
Prior to treatment, the technology’s specially designed coordinate system precisely locates the tumor to ensure proper placement of tiny seed-like tracking devices. These seeds track the radiation, and help to spare the surrounding healthy tissues from radiation exposure.
During SBRT, we use the Trilogy™ system to deliver concentrated, highly focused radiation treatments. Our doctors may deliver a single high dose of radiation, or a few fractionated radiation doses (usually up to five treatments over a period of days).
SBRT may be a promising option for patients who are not able to undergo surgery. This technology may also be used to treat medically inoperable tumors or tumors that have recurred after previous radiation treatments.
Advantages of SBRT
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SBRT uses custom mapping to account for a patient’s anatomy, breathing and organ motion.
- SBRT allows us to treat small tumors close to critical organs with less damage to surrounding healthy tissues.
- With SBRT, we can deliver a single high-dose radiation treatment, so patients are often able to complete their treatment in a shorter time than with standard radiation treatment.
Other tumor types that may be treated with SBRT include: bile duct, kidney, prostate, pelvic, and sarcomas.
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™
