The Lacks Cancer Center at Saint Mary’s TomoTherapy Fact Sheet

The Lacks Cancer Center at Saint Mary’s is the first healthcare network in Michigan to have TomoTherapy® – the latest in cancer-fighting technology.
TomoTherapy® is an integrated CAT-scanner and radiation treatment unit that allows high energy radiation therapy with extremely accurate patient positioning.
Typically, a patient is scanned to determine the treatment area and then sent to another site for treatment; with TomoTherapy®, the patient is scanned and treated without going anywhere.
With TomoTherapy®, a radiation oncologist can sculpt small, powerful and precise radiation beams to hit hard-to-reach tumors. The machine’s built-in scanning can confirm the shape and position of the tumor seconds before treatment begins, and account for any patient movement.
Another benefit of TomoTherapy is that radiation exposure to healthy tissue is reduced dramatically.
This technology, formally called the TomoTherapy Hi-Art System®, was developed by a Madison, Wisconsin-based privately held company called TomoTherapy Inc.
TomoTherapy Inc. selected The Lacks Cancer Center as one of its 20 Centers of Excellence.
As a Center of Excellence, The Lacks Cancer Center will participate in measuring patient outcomes and be assigned an on-site technical advisor for a minimum one-year period.