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million surgical tool that local physicians will use to treartsolid tumors. The START center bought a high-tech Varian Trilogy Linear Acceleratod system calledRapid Arc. The systenm delivers radiation directly into tumors to kill cancedr cells and shrink the size of Local officials say this technology will cut treatment provide greater accuracy in killing cancetr cells and ease the impact of treatmen ona patient. Rapid Arc will be used initiallty to treat prostate and other formsof cancers. Rapid Arc reducew the time spent from the current set up and treatment time from 20 minutezs toseven minutes.
“Wew are very excited to be the first in San Antonik with Rapid Arc and be able to improvs radiation treatments forour patients,” says Melissa director of medical physics at the START Center for Cancer The START Center for Cancer Care combines the strengthd of two of San Antonio’s top cancedr practices, South Texas Oncology and Hematology and Southh Texas Accelerated Research The START center operates from a 120,000-square-foot cancerd treatment and research facility in the South Texax Medical Center.
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