The Busamed Gateway Oncology Centre is a state-of-the-art radiotherapy facility housing a Halcyon Hypersight machine in the radiotherapy unit.
The centre is easy to access with alternative access via a lift for people with disabilities.
Warm colours, beautiful wall paintings and strategically placed ornamental plants are comforting and pleasing to the eye. Patients are greeted with a friendly smile which resonates with warm care and compassion and lessens the anxiety that face many oncology patients.
Radiotherapy is a treatment using ionizing radiation, delivered by a machine called a linear particle accelerator to kill malignant cells, shrink tumours and relieve the symptoms associated with cancer.
The hub of the radiotherapy unit includes a team of doctors, dosimetrists, physicists and radiographers who all work together to plan and deliver radiotherapy using the Halcyon hypersight machine. The hypersight technology offers advanced techniques such as deep inspiration breath hold for cardiac and lung sparing during breast cancer treatments.
Advanced Radiotherapy with Halcyon Hypersight Technology
Radiotherapy is a treatment using ionizing radiation, delivered by a machine called a linear particle accelerator to kill malignant cells, shrink tumours and relieve the symptoms associated with cancer.
The hub of the radiotherapy unit includes a team of doctors, dosimetrists, physicists and radiographers who all work together to plan and deliver radiotherapy using the Halcyon hypersight machine. The hypersight technology offers advanced techniques such as deep inspiration breath hold for cardiac and lung sparing during breast cancer treatments.
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Advanced Radiotherapy with Halcyon Hypersight Technology
Surface guided radiotherapy that supports tattoo and mark free treatments as well as intensity modulated radiotherapy known as imrt and volumetric modulated arc therapy known as vmat treatments, that provide targeted treatment while sparing surrounding healthy normal tissues.
The facility incorporates high resolution imaging systems which provide detailed real-time views of cancerous tissues, enabling early detection, disease progression and precise treatment planning as well as adaptive treatment that can be customized throughout a patient's treatment. These scientific advances have another advantage of speed in the radiotherapy delivery.
Patients are not inconvenience with long treatment times and are able to go back to work fairly quickly.
Radiotherapy is normally delivered over a variable period. The time frame is dependent on the type and stage of cancer and the general well-being of the patient. On the last day of treatment, a bell that is strategic positioned in the reception area is rung. Ringing the bell is a ritual that heralds the end of one's radiotherapy and salutes the patient for completing an essential part of their cancer treatment. The whole radiotherapy experience at Busamed Gateway Private Hospital ensures that advances in technology and technique lead to improved patient survival with meaningful quality of life outcomes.
These scientific advances are brought to the bedside by a professional and caring team of role players who reassure patients that their triumph over cancer is always possible.
