Guangzhou adds tumor radiotherapy tools! Jinshazhou Hospital introduces "TOMO knife"

Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine Jinshazhou Hospital (hereinafter referred to as "Jinshazhou Hospital") radiotherapy adds another sharp tool. On December 31st, Kinshasa Hospital held the launch ceremony of the Spiral Tomography System (TOMO), which is the fourth medical linear accelerator introduced by Kinshasa Hospital after the Ankerry M6 Radiosurgery Robot, varian radiation therapy superhuman TrueBeam, and Varian Intelligent Radiotherapy Halcyon system.

In 2020, there were 4.57 million new cancer cases in China, accounting for 23.8% of the world, and 3 million cancer deaths, accounting for 30.1% of the world. According to the requirements of the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 50% of cancer patients should receive radiation therapy, but China only has about 30% of the proportion, compared with the proportion of radiotherapy treatment in developed countries in Europe and the United States, which has basically reached 70%.

The shortage of radiotherapy personnel and radiotherapy equipment is one of the main factors contributing to this phenomenon. China has 1.56 accelerators per million population, Guangdong Province has only 1.11 per million population, and the United States has reached 8.2.

The TOMO introduced by Jinshazhou Hospital is the only radiation therapy device in the world that uses spiral tomography to treat cancer. It combines intensity-modulated conformal radiotherapy (IMRT), image-guided intensity-modulated conformal radiotherapy (IGRT), and dose-guided intensity-modulated conformal radiotherapy (DGRT). The tumor location is precisely located through an online imaging system, and then thousands of irradiation fields are helixed around the patient to precisely irradiate them; the tumor is accurately attacked while protecting normal organs to a greater extent.

The TOMO system is widely used in radiation therapy in all parts of the body, especially in the treatment of long target areas and large target areas such as full central nervous system irradiation and total lymph node irradiation, and can complete 135 cm long target spiral radiation therapy at one time. Moreover, TOMO can treat multiple parts at the same time, which greatly reduces the economic burden of patients.

Professor Wang Yang, a radiotherapy expert and vice president of Jinshazhou Hospital, said that the TOMO radiation therapy equipment added this time will further enhance the radiotherapy power in Guangdong, alleviate the pressure of patient radiotherapy, and benefit local and even national patients.

[Reporter] Yan Huifang

【Author】 Yan Huifang

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