Quirónsalud Torrevieja hosts this sixth meeting between Dr. Rosa Cañón,
Head of the Radiotherapy Unit of the Quirónsalud Torrevieja Oncology Platform and Marcela Fernández, president of the Alicante Association of Managers and Professionals (AEPA).
During the meeting, its protagonists highlighted the advances made during these twenty years since the start of the Quirónsalud Torrevieja Oncology Platform, in which Dr. Cañón highlighted that, “during these twenty years, efforts have been directed to treatments have not only a higher cure rate but also fewer side effects for the patient.” For her part, Marcela Fernández has highlighted “the human quality of the entire team and the treatment given to those people who are in such a difficult situation.”
Quirónsalud Torrevieja, pioneer in the incorporation of Intraoperative Radiotherapy
One step therapy, for patients with early breast cancer, allows tumor removal, sentinel node biopsy, irradiation and reconstruction of the affected breast, in a single surgical act.
The hospital center has been a pioneer in Spain in the incorporation of a miniaturized electron accelerator in the operating room for
Intraoperative radiotherapy treatments.
The treatment for patients with early breast cancer, called one-step therapy, allows tumor removal, selective sentinel node biopsy, full-dose irradiation and oncoplastic reconstruction of the breast in a single surgical act, thus eliminating sessions of external radiotherapy. The
Doctor Rosa M Cañón, head of the Radiotherapy Oncology Unit of the Oncology Platform of the Hospital Quirónsalud Torrevieja, explains that «The irradiation procedure in the operating room lasts 30 minutes, and with this all external irradiation sessions of conventional treatments are avoided, which although with the new accelerators has been reduced, in many cases they continue to be 15 and sometimes 25 sessions daily» .
“IORT is a high-precision technique in which a single, high fraction of radiotherapy is administered during a surgical procedure, on the tumor bed, with the
advantage of direct visualization of the bed to be irradiated, avoiding unnecessary irradiation of surrounding healthy tissues».
IORT has been used in the treatment of different malignant tumors, in advanced stages or recurrence of previous treatments, such as pancreatic, rectal, lung, gynecological, retroperitoneal and extremity sarcomas, generally in programs that associate irradiation external, to increase local control of the disease.
Another special technique, brachytherapy
Brachytherapy is a special technique of internal radiotherapy, in which the source that emits the radiation is in contact with
the tumor or the area to be treated.
It is done by placing some
special devices: «applicators», (catheters, cylinders, needles…), in the tumor or bed, in whose hollow interior a small radioactive source is inserted.
It is a local treatment, which administers a
very high irradiation dose in the area where “the implant” is made, with a
minimal irradiation of healthy tissues.
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