Radiotherapy to target the tumor with very high precision, sparing neighboring healthy tissues without risk of error, even when the evil to be hit is in an organ that can move with the patient's breath as the lungs. It is possible and has already been successfully performed on two patients for the first time in the world, with liver and prostate cancer, both treated in 5 sessions at the IrccsNegrar in Verona, thanks to a software that hears the patient's breathing and commands radiotherapy synchronizing it with it. In this way you can increase the dose of radiotherapy without fear of doing collateral damage, because the tool 'shoots' only when the evil is at the center of the viewfinder.
Introduced to the clinic for the first time in the world at Negrar, the innovation, also present at the University of Iowa, was recently presented at the American Society for Therapeutic Oncology and Radiology (Astro) meeting in San Diego.
The system is called MrLinac "Unity", the machine for radiotherapy guided by high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging, and now for the first time equipped with a new software called 'automatic gating' which, feeling the patient's breathing, is in fact as if it keeps the tumor hooked, allowing it to be hit only at the right time, when it is perfectly in the sights.
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