Benjamin Movsas, M.D./Chair, Radiation Oncology/Henry Ford Hospital
Henry ford we are so excited have a very first EDGE sterotactic unit in North America.
And recent really has to do with our experiences, we have treated here all of 4000 patients with sterotactic radiation.
And we know how to do this, how to apply it. And we can also help teach others how to do as well.
With the edge technology, we can now treat tumors, nearly anywhere in the body from the brain, to the head neck, to the lung, to the abdomen.
It is truly amazing, so we can offer the technology to many more patients ever before.
Perhaps, the biggest change that our patients will notice is that the radiation can be delivered much more rapidly.
The unit has much higher dose rate which would delivery rate of radiation about two-three times faster than other units that are available currently.
We can do their treatments in only one or up to five sessions.
And each session will now be, instead of being half an hour or a little bit longer than that,we¡¯re going to be down to be down to 10 to 15 minutes.
One of the greatest advantages of EDGE for our patients is that it opens up a new option, a non-invasive option,
so where in situation with surgery may not be upmost solution.
We can offer them treatment that is non-invasive with no knife, no incisions and still has the same result as cancer surgery.