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Ground Floor, Kuakini Medical Center
Radiation Therapy is a treatment that uses high energy X-rays, electrons or radioactive isotopes to destroy or control cancer. Special machines are used to aim a predetermined amount of radiation at the tumor or a specific area of your body where cancer is or could be present. The goal of radiation therapy is to destroy cancer cells with as little risk as possible to normal cells. Kuakini’s Radiation Therapy team consists of Radiation Oncologists, Radiation Therapists, Radiation Oncology Nurses, a Physicist and a Dosimetrists who meet regularly to discuss a patient’s progress and treatment plan. The Radiation Therapy Department’s mission statement emphasizes the importance of being courteous, informative, empathetic and timely while providing high quality service.
Kuakini has a state-of-the-art Varian Clinac 2100 C/D Dual Energy Linear Accelerator with Multileaf Collimation capabilities, a Philips Pinnacle Treatment Planning Computer with CT Simulation/Planning and IMRT planning capabilities, an IMPAC Radiation Oncology Management System, an IMRT QA system and low dose rate brachytherapy equipment.
Kuakini’s Radiation Therapy staff provides conventional radiation therapy treatments as well as intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) which is a state of the art cancer treatment that delivers multiple shaped beams of high energy X-rays directly to a specific area while sparing surrounding tissues and organs.
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