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Linear Accelerator in Cancer Treatment

Radiation oncologist Dr. Jim Urbanik explains the role of radiation therapies in the treatment of cancers at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Learn about our service: http://www.wakehealth.edu/RadiationOn... TRANSCRIPT: I'm Jim Urbanik, I'm one of the physicians in the department of Radiation Oncology. The Linear Accelerator is used in all types of cancers as a critical part of treatment as well in addition to both chemotherapy and surgery. We use x-ray treatments which is what the Linear Accelerator makes in order to try and target tumors fairly precisely to try and kill the cancers. The Linear Accelerator is pretty critical in the treatment of brain tumors. We use it both after surgery to try and treat the area with x-ray treatments to try and get rid of any cancer that could possibly be remaining after they've had the tumor out. The other reason we use the Linear Accelerator is to use x-ray treatments to treat patients that still have tumors present in the brain to try and get rid of those cancers. So we develop a treatment plan for our patients first by meeting with them, trying to figure out what their goals and hopes are, meeting with the other members of the health care team- the surgeons and the medical oncologists. Once we decide on a course of action that we're going to take in terms of what we do with radiation therapy, we'll do some fairly extensive imaging to try and accurately target the tumor, determine the organs that we need to treat and the things that we need to miss. Then, once we're ready to go, we bring them in and go ahead and get started. The treatments can range anywhere from just a couple of days or even a single day in some cases to several weeks of treatment. We have multiple different types of radiation treatments that we do here at Wake Forest Baptist. We have several areas which I would consider areas of expertise that are not found at many other centers around the country. And that primarily centers around radiosurgery which are high-dose, single treatment radiation treatments which we use fairly commonly here for the treatment of brain tumors. We also do similar treatments to other parts of the body- primarily the liver, the lung, and the spine- in order to try and help those patients with high-dose treatments to try and permanently eradicate tumors. We really cover the whole gamut of what people need for their cancer care in terms of the radiation treatments- treating everything from breast cancer to prostate cancer, most cancers involving the abdomen, and then lung cancer- which is what I primarily focus my practice on. We treat with radioisotopes which are pieces of metal sometimes planted either permanently or temporarily inside patients- we do that for certain cancers. Primarily though, we're delivering x-ray beams generated from outside the patient focused at the tumor as precisely as possible.