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The first establishment in Africa to offer this revolutionary technology that offers each patient customized treatment with high accuracy and efficiency.
The center has 3 tomotherapy devices.
TOMOTHERAPY combines a scanner with an X-ray tube (imaging) and a particle accelerator (radiotherapy) in the same equipment.
Together, they provide a 360 degrees rotation. This makes it possible to choose the angles from which the irradiation is the most effective on the tumour while being the least harmful on the neighbouring organs and tissues. This results in very precise, image-guided treatments.
It treats all types of cancers regardless of their location, shape, size and number.
Each patient benefits from personalized treatment.
One of the biggest advantages of tomotherapy is performing a scan of the area undergoing treatment at the beginning of each session. Which makes it possible to check whether the patient's position is respected and correct it if necessary to adapt the beam of rays to any anatomical changes in order to respect the treatment protocol prescribed by the physician-radiotherapist.
TOMOTHERAPY makes treating complex form tumours (located between healthy organs) possible with high accuracy and efficiency.
Thanks to its 135 cm long field of action, It is possible to treat during the same session the tumours spread in length (medulloblastoma), hematologic pathologies (Hematological diseases, Hodgkin's disease), and within the same session, tumours located at different levels (lung cancer, hepatic métastases).
Finally, the high accuracy of TOMOTHERAPY allows the re-irradiation of already irradiated areas (which is impossible to perform in conventional radiotherapy).
TOMOTHERAPY makes it possible to avoid or significantly reduce the undesirable effects and complications of conventional radiotherapies, such as cardiac damage in cancers of the left breast, pulmonary damage during treatment of both breasts, digestive and bladder damage in pelvic cancers, or damage to the salivary glands in cancers of the cavum, avoiding the disappearance of saliva secretion, etc.
It is the first step.
Centered on the area to be treated, it generates images that define the position in which the treatment will be delivered.
During this session, the skin will be marked by indelible tattoos to find this position.
each treatment session, restraints adapted to your morphology will be made (such as wedges, foam shells, and thermoformed mattresses…)
During which the radiotherapist-oncologist identifies the tumour, the lymph nodes and the organs to be protected.
The file is then retrieved by the medical physicist, who will define :
It allows determining the distribution and the dose of irradiation beam to obtain a maximal concentration on the tumour and minimal to zero one on the healthy tissue.
A treatment plan defining the doses and the number of sessions will be established.
This step is the longest; it can last between 3 hours and three days according to the characteristics of the tumour (type, size, localisation).
This treatment plan is then approved by the physician-oncologist.
These steps explain the reasons behind the long duration between the consultation and the start of treatment, which is generally less than ten days.
This time frame includes all of the phases mentioned above.
It is the first step.
Centered on the area to be treated, it generates images that define the position in which the treatment will be delivered.
During this session, the skin will be marked by indelible tattoos to find this position.
To find it at each treatment session, restraints adapted to your morphology will be made (such as wedges, foam shells, and thermoformed mattresses…)
During which the radiotherapist-oncologist identifies the tumour, the lymph nodes and the organs to be protected.
The file is then retrieved by the medical physicist, who will define :
It allows determining the distribution and the dose of irradiation beam to obtain a maximal concentration on the tumour and minimal to zero one on the healthy tissue.
A treatment plan defining the doses and the number of sessions will be established.
This step is the longest; it can last between 3 hours and three days according to the characteristics of the tumour (type, size, localisation).
This treatment plan is then approved by the physician-oncologist.
These steps explain the reasons behind the long duration between the consultation and the start of treatment, which is generally less than ten days.
This time frame includes all of the phases mentioned above.
The duration of the treatment, depending on the pathology and the selected protocol, is from 1 to 5 weeks, at a rate of five sessions per week, excluding weekends and holidays.
They have been highly reduced thanks to this new technology; meanwhile, the patient may feel a certain fatigue after the treatment.
You will be consulted by your doctor once a week, before or after your session, where you will be asked about your health improvement and the side effects you may encounter. Treatment will be prescribed by your doctor if necessary.
At the end of your radiotherapy treatment, an appointment will be arranged for a follow-up in consultation.
You will be lying on the machine's tray, alone in the room, but in permanent radio contact with the manipulator, who will observe you through the video circuit.
You must remain steady and still while the irradiation system rotates around you.
Irradiation is totally painless.
The total duration of the session is about 15 minutes, including 5 minutes of irradiation.
Your irradiation doesn’t pose any risk to your surroundings.