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The advantages of heavy ion cancer therapy

Short-term treatment is possible

Heavy-Ion Radiotherapy is completed in half the time of other types of radiation including proton therapy 

  1. One (1) or two (2) treatment session for lung cancer and liver cancer
  2. 12 to 16 times with prostate cancer
  3.  other cancers average 12 times / or 3 weeks

Effective for cancer where surgery is difficult

Cranial base, head and neck, pelvic area, etc.

Effective for radiation-resistant cancer

Sarcoma, malignant melanoma, adenocarcinoma etc.

Diseases suited to heavy ion cancer therapy

 

  • Head and neck tumors
  • Pulmonary and mediastinal tumors
  • Gastrointestinal tumors (esophagus, recurrent colorectal cancer inside the pelvis)
  • Liver, pancreatic tumor
  • Urologic tumors (prostate, kidney)
  • G gynecologic tumors (locally advanced uterine cervical cancer, locally advanced cervical endometrial cancer, malignant melanoma of the gynecologic area)
  • Metastatic tumors (llung, liver, lymph nodes )
  • Bone and soft tissue tumors

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Heavy-Ion Treatment Rooms

YUHS HEavy ion center

The Yonsei University Severance Hospital YUHS Center

The heavy ion cancer therapy equipment at YUHS Hospital can deliver the heavy ion beam from every angle using a superconducting rotating-gantry. Compared to conventional fixed direction equipment, it forces less physical burden on the patient and enables more accurate treatment for the affected area.  Toshiba ESS is highly proud of this contract with Yonsei University Health System, which is the most prestigious hospital in Korea. Our technologies have been developed in collaboration with QST/NIRS and quite confident that our state-of-the-art heavy ion therapy system will contribute to the advanced radiotherapy in YUHS cancer center.” 

 Do-Heum Yoon, president & CEO of YUHS said, “Heavy-ion therapy, known as the most advanced cancer treatment in the world, will deliver the promise of patient-centered care in an era of incurable cancer and super-aging society.
Through the introduction of Toshiba’s heavy-ion therapy system, YUHS hopes to bring breakthrough innovations in cancer therapy as we did when we opened nation’s first cancer center more than five decades ago.” 

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