Sunnybrook’s Cancer Ablation Therapy Program harnesses a range of precision therapies to destroy tumours without the need for invasive surgery.
Cancer Ablation Therapy Program
The program has acquired three game-changing radiation technologies that will allow Sunnybrook to provide individualized, precision care to more patients, and conduct leading-edge research to invent the future of health care.
Sunnybrook is the first in Canada to have this trio of highly specialized cancer ablation therapy machines.
These precise machines will help change the way we target tumours and expand our individualized, patient-centred approach.
Our researchers will help perfect the way these machines are used to treat patients in the best and safest ways possible.
Doctors at Sunnybrook's Odette CancerCentre can now watch a beam of radiationmove through a patient's body in real time anddirect that beam precisely at a tumour.
With the Icon, our cancer experts can offer precision radiation to a broader group of patients – for instance, to people with as many as 30 brain tumours.
Sunnybrook’s leading Cancer Ablation Therapy Program was made possible with the generous support from industry partners (Elekta, Phillips), FedDev grants, CFI grants and philanthrophic donors.