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Raystation In Clinical Use At Yamagata Carbon Ion Therapy Center
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STOCKHOLM, April 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/
RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ) announces that the new carbon ion therapy center at Yamagata University Hospital in Northern Japan, has treated its first patients using the RayStation® treatment planning system in combination with Toshiba s treatment delivery system.
The center opened this year, and the first treatments were carried out in February 2021.
The first treatment – a prostate cancer case treated in the horizontal fixed beam treatment room – was successfully carried out on February 25. The number of cases has steadily increased, and 12 prostate cancer patients had started treatment by March 18. In the next few months, treatments will commence for other tumor sites, using the rotating gantry port.