Radiation Therapy
405-271-5641
Radiation Therapy Center in the OU Physicians Building
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When faced with a cancer diagnosis, it is normal to experience a wide range of emotions. Worry, fear, anger, hope and plenty of questions are common. In addition to the disease itself, treatment can become an overwhelming concern. If the treatment includes radiation, there is often concern for the healthy tissue surrounding the cancer and sometimes, anxiety about finding a treatment facility close to home.
The Radiation Therapy Center at OU Medical Center has changed the face of treatment options and now gives Oklahoma cancer patients the ability to receive the most advanced radiation treatments close to home. The Center provides a complete range of treatments for cancer, second to none in Oklahoma.
At the core of the Center is the new image-guided radiotherapy technology (IGRT) provided by the Trilogy® Stereotactic System from Varian® Medical Systems. It is the most advanced, sophisticated machine of its type in the world. Access to this leading-edge technology moves OU Medical Center and its OU Medicine affiliated doctors to a new level of patient care. The Trilogy gives maximum radiation treatment to the tumor, while greatly reducing the radiation delivered to the surrounding normal tissues.
Trilogy Stereotactic System
The new Trilogy is equipped with an imaging system that gives your doctor 2-D and 3-D views that allows him/her to precisely locate and target your tumor. In addition, the system uses computers and movable leaves to create a radiation beam that matches the shape of your tumor from any angle. This reduces the damage to the normal, healthy tissue that surrounds the tumor. Another advanced feature of the Trilogy known as "respiratory gating," lets it adjust for movement of a tumor cause by your breathing. All these techniques can be customized for each patient, allowing your doctor to treat almost any type and size of tumor anywhere in your body, including your brain.
In addition to the Trilogy, the Center has a pair of platinum series medical linear accelerators by Varian Medical Systems. The Platinum Series Linacs are high-tech machines, created to perform Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) and one has been updated to perform image guided radiotherapy (IGRT). These machines are used when the all the advanced technologies of the Trilogy is not required.
Part of Your Team
The new Radiation Therapy Center is the culmination of many years of planning for this state-of-the art radiation treatment facility. Radiation therapy, however, does not stand alone in the fight to conquer cancer. It is an integral part of a multidisciplinary approach consisting of surgical oncology, radiation oncology, medical oncology and the work of medical physicists. This important team is present at OU Medical Center and will find the best course of treatment for you. When facing cancer, Oklahomans can experience the team approach for the complete treatment management. And with
the most advanced options available, patients can stay close to home with support of friends and family when they need it the most.
We specialize in the following therapies and treatments:
- Image fusion
- Palliative medicine
- Intensity-modulated radiation therapy
- Combined treatments with chemotherapy for lung cancer and head and neck cancers
- Low-dose radiation for Graves' Disease
- Total-body irradiation for bone marrow transplant preparation and leukemia
- Pre- and post-surgical bone radiation
- Radiation for skin cancer and tumors just beneath the skin
- Brachytherapy, including:
- Permanent Prostate ("Seed") Implantation for prostate cancer
- Low-Dose-Rate brachytherapy for selected recurrent cancers
- High-Dose-Rate after-loading brachytherapy for gastrointestinal; lung; breast and gynecologic; and esophageal cancers
- Image-guided radiosurgery
When facing cancer, patients can experience the team approach for the complete management of treatment. And with the most advanced options available, patients can stay close to home, with support of friends and family, when they need it the most.



