Cancer Treatment

At Mid-Rivers Cancer Center all types of cancer are treated, including breast, prostate, lung, colon, skin, sarcoma, lymphoma and head and neck cancers.    Dr. Christopher Walsh. M.D., has been an innovator in implementing "intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).  IMRT, is considered the most advanced radiation available to destroy cancer cells without damaging normal tissue.  IMRT uses varying beam intensities that may be moved dozens or hundreds of times and may each vary with a different intensity, resulting in radiation sculpted in three dimensions.  Because the radiation is sent to the tumor only through allowed paths, the side effects of IMRT are much less.  The treatment is administered on an outpatient basis.