New GPS-like system to track prostate cancer tumors
July 28th, 2010 Posted in radiation therapyThe Cedars-Sinai’s Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute is now being offering to patients undergoing radiation therapy a new system that utilizes a precise a GPS-like system to track prostate cancer tumors.
The monitoring system, called Calypso, allows radiation beams to more precisely target the cancer as it gives real-time positioning information that allows the radiation beams to focus directly on the cancer.