Tomotherapy

The Greater Poland Cancer Centre was one of the first two centres in Poland to start using tomotherapy as a cancer treatment method (one of the methods of radiotherapy, a form radioteletherapy).

A tomotherapy machine combines the functionalities of a therapeutic machine (irradiation) and CT scanner (patient set-up verification). Owing to these two properties, it can ensure a very precise treatment while minimising side effects. Tomotherapy is most often used to treat patients with head and neck cancer, abdominal and pelvic cancers, and other types of cancer, such as neuraxial tumours and sarcomas