Radiation Oncology
Holy Name Medical Center offers the latest advances – sometimes among the first worldwide – in radiation therapy, using state-of-the-art technology to precisely target cancer cells while better protecting healthy tissue. Penetrating beams of high-energy radiation damage the genetic material in cancer cells, hindering the cells' ability to continue growing and duplicating. Radiation treatment may be used solely or in concert with surgery and/or chemotherapy to halt the progression of the disease. Often, radiation can kill all cancer cells, thereby shrinking or eliminating tumors.