Global Hospitals group has launched the BGS Global Cancer Institute, a well equipped institute with world’s most advanced radiation therapy machine, TrueBeam Stx.

TrueBeam STx is the latest in the series of TrueBeam Machines, the next generation of Radiation Oncology LINACS being introduced for the first time in Asia Pacific at Bengaluru. This latest technology targets only cancer cells in tumours even in moving organs (lungs, prostate, and kidney) with amazing precision while sparing the surrounding normal healthy tissues. No other machine either in Bengaluru or in India or for that matter in Asia Pacific has the ability to do Rapid Arc with gating-‘Gated RapidArc’ All kinds of radiotherapy techniques including stereotactic procedures in a single machine.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr K Ravindranath, chairman and managing director, Global Hospitals Group said, “At Global Hospitals Group, we are on a constant quest to bring patients the best treatments in the form of clinical expertise and technology. Towards this, we have been continuously investing on the most advanced technologies. I am personally very delighted that, today we bring to the people of Karnataka, Asia Pacific’s first TrueBeam STx. Since, inception, we have been routinely performing medical and surgical procedures to treat a variety of cancers. The addition of TrueBeam STx will now help us in bringing the cancer patients requiring radiation therapy, the best radiation technology ever. We will soon be commissioning Gamma Camera and Brachy Therapy machines too, while PET CT is already commissioned, which will make BGS Global Hospitals a complete “one-stop” destination for the most advanced radiation therapy treatments in the world.”

David James, director of Surgical Sciences at Varian Medical Systems, Germany, makers of TrueBeam STX, said, “At Varian, we are delighted that Asia Pacific’s first TrueBeam STx is commissioned at BGS Global Hospitals. The high precision, accuracy and visibility of Trubeam STx provide the cancer professionals at BGS Global Hospitals with the tools they need to eliminate even complex tumours. With such unsurpassed technology in their hands, they have the ability to expand their practice by treating in new and innovative ways. They now can spare more surrounding critical structures and deliver more ablative treatments with leading-edge delivery of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT).”

TrueBeam STx is an advanced radiation therapy machine engineered to perform the most sophisticated radiation therapy and radio-surgery procedures with pinpoint accuracy and ultra-fine precision. It works by choreographing highly sophisticated systems—imaging, beam delivery and motion management—and makes it possible to deliver treatments quickly while monitoring and compensating for tumour motion. It will enable faster, accurate tumour targeting in the treatment of challenging cancers throughout the body, including those in the brain, pancreas and liver. Already installed and operational, Radiation oncologists at BGS Global Hospitals are routinely performing complex procedures with amazing precision and patient comfort.