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Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)

A Breakthrough in Cancer Treatment

  • The Baptist Centers for Cancer Care & Diagnostics Center is the first in the region to offer IMRT, a new radiation treatment for cancer in adults.
  • Rather than having a few large radiation beams pass through the body, with IMRT the radiation is broken up into thousands of tiny pencil-thin radiation beams. With pinpoint accuracy, these beams enter the body from many angles and destroy cancer cells.


  • The advantages of IMRT include:
    • Higher dosage of radiation to tumors and lower doses to surrounding healthy tissue
    • Ability to safely treat tumors located near critical organs, such as the eye and spinal cord
    • Reduced radiation side effects

IMRT may be used to treat the following types of cancer:
  • Brain
  • Pancreatic
  • Lung
  • Prostate
  • Head and neck
  • Some types of liver cancer
  • Breast, gynecological and recurrent pelvic cancers

For more information about IMRT, consult your physician and/or the Baptist Centers for Cancer Care & Diagnostics Center at (662) 513-9650.

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