In a development that brings new hope to cancer patients in Eastern India, Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals launched the advanced Halcyon Radiation Therapy System for optimized image-guided radiotherapy to deliver high quality cancer treatment. The Halcyon system introduced to Eastern India for the first time uses human-centred design to deliver sophisticated, highly targeted cancer treatments at a speed that is up to four times faster than standard technology.
The Halcyon Radiation Therapy system’s targeted therapy ensures that damage to healthy tissues surrounding the tumour can be further avoided or minimised, which is of great benefit in cases such as cancer of the head and neck, prostate, lungs etc. The Halcyon system has multiple benefits including automated treatment, comfort for the patient, ease of use for the oncology team, and accelerated installation timeframe with shortening of time from installation to first-treatment without sacrificing quality. The system simplifies and enhances every aspect of the radiation therapy process, with image-guidance and intensity-modulation radiotherapy (IMRT) that improves patient comfort. With a streamlined workflow, the Halcyon system requires just nine steps from the start to the end of treatment compared to up to more than 30 steps with older technologies.
The unique and innovative design of the Halcyon system allows clinicians to treat patients quickly and minimize motion, which is extremely important when treating patients with pelvic tumours such as prostate cancer and cervical cancer.