Cancer Beam Breakthrough NOLA Hospital First in South to Track Tumors in Real Time

Cancer care in New Orleans is getting a serious tech boost. Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center is rolling out a new form of precision radiotherapy that literally follows tumors as they move inside the body, using the cancer’s own biology as a guide. Installed at Ochsner Baptist, the system makes the center the first in the southern United States to offer this FDA‑cleared therapy for selected lung and bone tumors, and one of only a handful of sites worldwide using it. Clinicians say it allows them to track tumor motion and hit multiple targets while better protecting nearby healthy tissue compared with traditional radiation techniques.

How the treatment tracks cancer

According to Ochsner Health, the platform fuses positron‑emission tomography (PET)…..

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