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A team of specialists intervenes on a woman with breast cancer
Last Tuesday, for the first time in this center, a team of specialists from the San Jorge hospital in Huesca operated on a woman with breast cancer using the intraoperative radiotherapy technique. This intervention, already successfully launched in Teruel and Alcañiz, will arrive at the end of this month at the Barbastro hospital, according to sources from the Department of Health.
In this way, the expansion program of this cutting-edge technology throughout the territory faces its last step. This type of radiotherapy implies that in the same surgical session in which the woman has the tumor removed, radiotherapy is already administered to the tumor bed, preventing the patient from having to return later to undergo sessions in the accelerator.
This novel treatment, which debuted in Aragon a few years ago in Servet itself, allows the patient with breast cancer to receive the entire treatment in one day. That is, in a single session you receive what, until now, meant 40 sessions over 8 weeks in Zaragoza, the only place where there is accelerator equipment for cancer.
TUMOR COMMITTEES
At the same time, this technological option frees and makes available the accelerators to tackle other urgent tumor processes, since radiotherapy is an increasingly in-demand treatment and requires a lot of use of them. The Servet Radiation Oncology service is the one that has promoted the expansion of this technique throughout Aragon. The objective, according to Health sources, is to "improve patient care."
In this process, doctors have traveled to community hospitals where cancer is diagnosed and treatments are administered in order to avoid travel to the sick. Training and theoretical sessions have also been carried out at Servet.
In addition, Radiation Oncology professionals also travel to these centers to participate in the Tumor Committees. These working groups are made up of doctors from all specialties involved in cancer treatment and make collective decisions about the treatment of each patient.
Initially, this intraoperative radiotherapy is being applied to breast cancer, but in the future it is expected that it could be extended to other pathologies such as colon or anal cancer.
