Varian EDGE

The underlying idea of radiosurgery is, high-intensity beams of radiation are used with great precision and accuracy to destroy cancer cells within 1-5 treatment sessions as opposed to several weeks with conventional radiotherapy. These beams directly damage cancerous cells while minimizing exposure to nearby healthy cells or tissues.

When the cancerous cells are hit by high-dose beams, their ability to reproduce is compromised and they eventually die. By using EDGE radiosurgery, it could be a single course treatment or multiple courses (mostly not exceeding 5 times/ each treatment) depending on type, size and exact location of cancerous cells. Nevertheless, radiosurgery might not be appropriate for some certain types of tumors and cancers.

What is EDGE?

EDGE Radiosurgery uses non-invasive tumor-destroying with high radiation dose to treat cancer anywhere in the body where radiation is indicated. EDEGE system is being used with patients who are not good candidates for surgery.

This powerful advanced technology is very precise, accurate, convenient and fast. In fact, most treatments take only 15 minutes.

Advantages:

1. Highly effective to treat and relieve cancer-related symptoms

2. Painless and bloodless treatment

3. Accurate, precise, convenient and fast

Advanced Benefits from EDGE

1. The ability to deliver higher doses of radiation at a greater speed allows most treatments to be given quickly and without compromising accuracy.

2. A very sophisticated respiratory monitoring system helps to compensate for breathing especially in lung cancer and liver cancer in order to reduce the risk of damage to surrounding healthy tissues.

3. The Edge radiosurgery system is designed to effectively treat a wide range of cancer including those in the brain, spine, lung, gastrointestinal system, genito-urinary system.

4. EDGE features 120-tooth, 2.5-mm-wide multi-leaf collimators (MLC). Each leaf moves individually according to certain shape and size of cancer. Hence other healthy areas will be shielded from radiation.

5. EDGE is implemented with Image-Guided Radiation Therapy system in order to pinpoint an exact site of cancer before radiation treatment can be delivered to each patient.

6. With high-intensity mode and high-dose rates, each radiation treatment time is shortened resulting in increasing patient’s convenience and comfort.