New adaptive radiation therapy unit first of its kind in Canada | 24CA News
BC Cancer- Kelowna has unveiled the brand new Ethos Adaptive Radiation remedy unit, which the group says will revolutionize how most cancers remedy plans are developed and modified because the illness evolves in sufferers. It is the one unit now in Canada.
With this new piece of kit, medical employees can see tumour modifications contained in the physique and adapt remedy plans on the snap of an image. It combines diagnostic imagining with radiation remedy.
“And the artificial intelligence in this new technology (will be used) to very rapidly generate a brand new treatment plan for each day,” stated senior medical physicist Nathan Becker.
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Radiation Oncologist for BC Cancer-Kelowna Dr. Francois Bachand explains the machine can deal with any sort of most cancers.
“This machine has the technology that allows us to do this work much quicker then usual,” stated Bachand.
The focus of the Ethos machine is the remedy of pelvic space cancers. However, work is being completed to broaden that to different sorts.
According to senior medical physicist Nathan Becker, medical trails have already begun in different nations which have this unit.
“There are clinical trials on-going across the United States and Europe that are looking at lung tumours, at head and neck tumours or brain tumours as well,” stated Becker.
This cutting-edge know-how will change how affected person care is dealt with day by day at BC Cancer- Kelowna. The machine prices about three million {dollars} and can shorten wait instances for remedy plans. It may also give medical employees the chance to be taught as they go.
There are plans so as to add extra of those machines in B.C. and throughout Canada, however for now all eyes are on Kelowna.
