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It is one of the most advanced, automated, high precision procedures, available in external beam therapy. The biggest advantage of IMRT is that it helps protect and shield the healthy tissues and critical structures from the potentially damaging radiations. Unlike the conventional radiation therapy system which allows the field to be shaped in two dimensions, IMRT allows the field to be shaped in three dimensions (3D). This increases the precision in the management of tumors (which are thicker in some places and thinner in others).
Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy provides radiation fields with optimized non-uniform spatial intensity distributions from different directions, to achieve the ideal dose distribution over the tumor with sparing of the nearby critical structures.
The sites that are most commonly treated with IMRT are: lung, spine, kidney, pancreas, liver, breast, larynx, tongue, prostate and sinus. The brain is treated with IMRT when one-session radio-surgery is inappropriate or is unavailable.
The conventional method:
How imrt has an edge over the conventional procedure?
Stereotactic radiation therapy:
Hospitals, however, refer to this form of therapy depending up on the equipment manufacturer instead of using the term Stereo-tactic Radiation Therapy. The various brands include Cyber Knife, X-Knife, Gamma Knife, Novalis, and TomoTherapy. There are considerable differences between the various brands and also differences regarding, what is best managed by a particular equipment.
Cyber Knife: Primarily used for radiation therapy, it is effective in the management of tumors in the brain, vertebral column and a few other parts of the body. However it can be used to manage smaller tumor lesions with a size of about 3 to 4 centimeters. Cyber knife has the advantage of, having the constant ability to adapt to the displacement of the tumor due to movement of the surrounding organs. Also the treatment can be split into different sessions, if required for preserving the surrounding healthy tissue. However, for surgical management Cyber knife requires tumor markers inside the tumors to help irradiation. More over, Cyber knife doesn’t provide conventional doses but extremely high doses of radiations making it slightly less preferred. More aboutCyber Knife cancer treatment abroad.
Gamma Knife: Also used primarily for radiation therapy, its effectiveness is limited to the tumors of the brain. In addition, it requires a rigid frame to hold the body, while irradiation, to ensure accuracy and precision. It is also used to manage smaller tumor lesions and is not chosen for larger tumors
Tomo-therapy: Though it is not primarily used for radiation therapy, it can perform radio surgery. It can be used for the treatment of tumors anywhere in the body and can be used to manage tumors of larger sizes as well. It also has the advantages of the Cyber knife procedure like ability to adapt to the continual displacement of the tumor and splitting the treatment into different sessions to protect the surrounding healthy tissue.
Theoretical data and clinical studies have demonstrated the enormous benefits of the Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy. It has special value in the reduction of treatment related toxicity. IMRT has resulted in the introduction of the novel concepts of inverse planning in contrast to the trial and error approach which was used by conventional radiotherapy. This therapy is of absolute significance and immense importance in the management of childhood cancers. Most of the symptoms are milder than conventional radiation therapy and the procedure in practically painless.
IMRT, is radio-biologically highly beneficial, and also offers the patients greater convenience. The upshot is better tumor control, lesser harm to healthy tissues, and neighboring structures, and a better quality of life for the patients.
Though IMRT is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, the availability of the technology across hospitals is very limited. However, most experts are of the opinion that the technology will be widely available across the globe in the next few years. This therapy holds great promise in radiation oncology.
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