Treating breast cancer with new TomoDirect device

Patients with breast cancer may be effectively treated with a TomoDirect device manufactured by VUB University (Belgium).

This is a new treatment device, which combines radiotherapy with the creation of an extremely accurate image and thus allows avoiding the elimination of benign cells.

A surgery to treat breast cancer.

According to Truus Reynders, a physicist at VUB, this new technique will allow the use of radiation intensity more accurately and more accurately than traditional radiotherapy. Since the discovery of X-ray therapy with appropriate intensity modules (RCMI), scientists have been studying to integrate this technique into the treatment of breast cancer.

Through research, scientists at VUB University have discovered that RCMI can control radiation intensity suitable for each type of tumor and thus avoid other organs being affected, this is It means creating opportunities for curing diseases and reducing the side effects caused by radiation therapy.

According to VUB University statistics, in Western countries, one in eight women are victims of breast cancer once in their lives. Treatment for breast cancer is usually surgery, radiotherapy or a combination of both.

It is expected that this device will be released in May.