Services & Treatments

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    Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART)

    Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART) is the future of personalized radiation therapy. Varian Ethos therapy is an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven holistic solution designed to increase the capability, flexibility and efficiency of radiation therapy.

     

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    Brachytherapy

    Brachytherapy is often used to treat prostate cancer and breast cancer. Specialists place radioactive "seeds" at the site of the tumor, enhancing cancer control while minimizing exposure to nearby healthy tissue and vital organs.

     

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    External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT)

    External beam radiation therapy comes from a machine that aims radiation at your cancer.

     

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    Gamma Knife

    The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, headquartered in Detroit, is proud to offer the Leksell Gamma Knife® Icon™, the most precise stereotactic radiosurgery system (SRS) currently available. This innovative technology is available at the Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Cancer Treatment Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

     

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    Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)

    Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) is a high precision 3D radiotherapy that uses computer controlled linear accelerators to deliver radiation to a tumor or to specific areas of the tumor.

     

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    Prostate Seed Implant

    Prostate Seed Implantation, also called Brachytherapy, is a procedure to implant radioactive pellets into the prostate gland to kill prostate cancer cells.

     

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    Proton Therapy Center

    Located in Flint, Michigan, the McLaren Proton Therapy Center features the latest technology and expertise to deliver proton therapy for optimum cancer treatment.

     

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    Radiopharmaceuticals | Karmanos

    Radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT) is a treatment technique that uses a drug which carries a radioactive compound that targets cancer cells.

     

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    Stereotactic Radiation Therapy (SRT)

    A type of external radiation therapy that uses special equipment to position the patient and precisely delivers radiation to a tumor.

     

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    Total Body Irradiation (TBI)

    Total Body Irradiation is a type of radiation therapy that is given to the entire body.

     

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    Varian Linear Accelerators

    Karmanos Cancer Institute offers the Varian TrueBeam linear accelerator, a state-of-the-art image-guided cancer radiation therapy technology.