Lung Cancer Treatment: IMRT
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Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer
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Another radiation therapy that may be an option for treatment of your lung cancer is Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT). This treatment allows your oncologist and radiation therapy team to deliver radiation in multiple, thin beams that intersect the tumor site with great precision.
An advantage of IMRT is that it allows our cancer experts to tailor the dose of radiation around the geometry of the lung tumor. This helps to spare more of your surrounding healthy tissue, compared to standard radiation therapy.
Two ways that IMRT differs from conventional radiation are:
- IMRT employs a powerful, advanced computer program to plan a precise dose of radiation in three dimensions, based on individual the lung tumor’s size, shape and location
- IMRT directs radiation at the lung tumor and modulates the intensity of radiation with laser accuracy
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