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Tamara Shaw lost a wife, daughter and twin sister, respectively, when
Tiffany Oritz died of colon cancer last year. The Jacksonville residents will be among the 24 people featured in No Excuses, a national colorectal cancer awareness campaign launching in March in New York s Times Square.
Their stories will also be featured on Fight Colorectal Cancer s Facebook page. They are dedicating a year of volunteer time to raise awareness of the importance of screening, using their personal stories in an effort to help save lives.
Colon and rectal cancers make up the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in the country among men and women combined, the organization said. Sixty percent of colorectal cancer deaths could be prevented with screening.
GenesisCare Brings Western North Carolina Cancer Patients Elekta Versa HD™ Technology
New Linear Radiotherapy Shortens Brain, Lung, and Metastases Treatment Time With Better Results, While Reducing Damage to Healthy Tissue
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ASHEVILLE, N.C., Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/
GenesisCare one of the leading oncology providers in the United States, Australia, Spain, and the United Kingdom today announced the addition of the new Elekta Versa HD™ at its Asheville location. This innovative technology is available to oncology patients with brain, lung, and metastases cancer throughout Western North Carolina and nearby areas. With shorter treatment times, this hypofractionated radiation therapy provides the highest level of dose delivery accuracy while pushing the boundaries of stereotactic capabilities that can be delivered in a standard therapy slot of 15 minutes or less, which was not previously possible.
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NAPLES, Fla., Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ GenesisCare one of the leading oncology providers in the United States, Australia, Spain, and the United Kingdom today announced the addition of a game-changing adaptive therapy, the Varian Ethos™. Designed to create customized cancer-fighting treatments, this technology targets tumors and accounts for body changes and shrinking cancers. Personalized patient care is one of GenesisCare s commitments to the community and this treatment helps put the patient at the center of care. This technology allows oncologists to quickly adapt treatment plans based on their ability to view daily changes in the patient s anatomy. What used to take two-three days now takes 15-minutes.
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month has just passed, but the calendar’s flip to February should not stop the fight against a disease that primarily afflicts working-age women.