{"id":128462,"date":"2021-10-02T20:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T03:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/the-medical-minute-real-time-tumor-tracking-improves-cancer-cure-rates"},"modified":"2021-10-02T20:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T03:22:30","slug":"the-medical-minute-real-time-tumor-tracking-improves-cancer-cure-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/the-medical-minute-real-time-tumor-tracking-improves-cancer-cure-rates","title":{"rendered":"The Medical Minute: Real-time tumor tracking improves cancer cure rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-medical-minute-real-time-tumor-tracking-improves-cancer-cure-rates2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image-guided radiation therapy has evolved to include the ability to track tumors in real time during treatment. It\u2019s improving cure rates and limiting side effects for a growing number of cancer patients.<\/p>\n<p>Think of it like radio making way for television. For more than a century, radiation therapy has been effective in treating cancer. From the first X-rays, to today\u2019s computed tomography (CT) scans, physicians have relied on various imaging techniques to locate tumors and guide their treatment. Enter real-time tumor tracking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMagnetic Resonance-guided therapy is really a new paradigm,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennstatehealth.org\/doctors\/rodney-j-ellis-md\">Dr. Rodney Ellis<\/a>, chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cancer.psu.edu\/patient-care\/patient-education-and-support\/radiation-oncology\">Department of Radiation Oncology<\/a> at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. He notes the leading-edge technology merges MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) with a linear accelerator, making it possible to reshape radiation dosage based on daily changes in a tumor\u2019s shape, size and position and its surrounding healthy anatomy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image-guided radiation therapy has evolved to include the ability to track tumors in real time during treatment. It\u2019s improving cure rates and limiting side effects for a growing number of cancer patients. Think of it like radio making way for television. For more than a century, radiation therapy has been effective in treating cancer. From [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}