La radiothérapie à l'IUCT-Oncopole





The radiotherapy department

The department has an external beam radiotherapy service and all brachytherapy techniques.

 

Head of Department: Prof. Elizabeth Moyal
Deputy head: Dr Michel Rives
Secretary : (+33) 05 31 15 54 27

Health service coordinating manager: Béatrice Lucas
Telephone: (+33) 05 31 15 54 18
Radiotherapy health service manager: Philippe Daguenel
Telephone: (+33) 05 31 15 54 19

External beam radiotherapy

The department has the latest generation of therapeutic techniques:

  • tomotherapy (3rd Gen & HD),
  • image-guided radiation (IGRT),
  • volumetric-modulated arc therapy (Rapid'Arc),
  • intracranial stereotactic irradiation
  • and respiratory-gated radiation therapy.
  • Extracranial stereotactic radiation therapy.

 

The technical platform :

  • 1 3rd Gen tomotherapy (1st installation in France)
    2 precision accelerators with intensity-modulated radiation therapy, IGRT and stereotaxis
  • 2 high definition tomotherapy devices
  • 2 accelerators with intensity modulation and IGRT
  • 1 dedicated scanner

The radiotherapy department is open from 7:30 to 20:00 Monday to Friday (except weekends and public holidays).

 

Brachytherapy

The department has all the techniques: pulsed-dose rate brachytherapy, high-dose rate, or intra- or peri-operative brachytherapy.

The technical platform :

  • 1 brachytherapy theater
  • 1 high-dose rate bunker treatment room
  • 1 device for prostate brachytherapy
  • 1 intraoperative radiation device
  • 1 device for delivering high-dose rate brachytherapy
  • 3 devices for delivering pulsed-dose rate brachytherapy

 

Innovation

The department's ambition is to develop innovative techniques such as extracranial stereotaxis, adaptive radiotherapy and intraoperative breast irradiation techniques.

 

Medical team