Cancer Center - Overview

Radiation Oncologists:

Radiation treatments attack tumors where they live to shrink and kill them and their blood supply. In some cases, radiation alone is enough to destroy a tumor, in other cases, radiation shrinks a tumor enough to allow surgery to take place. In other cases, radiation and chemotherapy are given together to enhance tumor "kill." In some types of cancer, such as prostate cancer, "seeds" that produce low-level radiation are implanted adjacent to the tumor to shrink it over time. You can generally receive radiation treatments to a specific part of your body only once in your life – if the cancer recurs in the same location at a later date, another treatment will need to employed.

Gary Proulx, MD, Chairman - Radiation Oncology, Director - Guthrie Cancer Center
	Specialty Interest: breast, prostate and gastroentrological malignancies, lymphoma more info...

	Sandra E. Brunk, CRNP Specialty Interest: breast, prostate and gastroentrological malignancies, lymphoma more info...