Clinical Services
The Department of Radiation Oncology at
Duke
University
Medical
Center
is one of the busiest and most technologically advanced clinical radiation therapy programs in the
United States
. Our specialists provide care for more patients than any other center in
North Carolina
, annually treating more than 1,200 patients with radiation therapy and administering more than 25,000 individual radiation treatments. We treat a full spectrum of benign and malignant tumors.
Treatment Options
The department offers a full range of radiation therapy options, including high dose rate brachytherapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) with kilovoltage and cone beam CT capabilities, stereotactic radiosurgery, stereotactic body radiotherapy, intraoperative radiation therapy, total body photon irradiation, total skin electron therapy, prostate seeded implanted with several available isotopes, and comprehensive hyperthermia treatment.
State of the Art Equipment
Advanced radiation treatment are delivered through state-or-art technologies with five-modern linear accelerators, two CT simulators with 4-D simulation capability and one conventional simulator, three dimensional treatment planning computers, a high dose brachytherapy unit, dedicated intraoperative radiation therapy suite, an MRI unit, and an orthovoltage unit. In addition, the department has an active clinical hyperthermia program, funded by a NCI Program Project Grant.
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