Lung Cancer
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Limited number of targeting angles with conventional devices
Depending upon the exact location of a lung cancer, it may be difficult to deliver the necessary high dose of radiation to that cancer using “conventional” radiation techniques, without also delivering a substantial dose to the normal tissue traversed by any given radiation beam path, sometimes even affecting normal tissue that resides far away from the target lesion.
Limited number of beam angles result in significant radiation deposition away from the targeted area (blue and green shading)
Written by Donald B. Fuller, M.D. – Radiation Oncologist