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Advanced Technology

 

The latest technology, the most effective therapies

Opening February 2008

Offering world-class cancer care requires both a huge financial commitment on the part of an institution and an enormous personal commitment on the part of staff. Providence offers both in spades.

Providence demonstrates this commitment by bringing Image Guided Radiation Therapy to patients at the 11-story cancer center building, which will open on Portland’s East side in early 2008. This technology is so advanced that treatment protocols are still being developed at institutions like Memorial Sloan-Kettering while the facility that will house IGRT at Providence is under construction.

From external radiation therapies to implant therapies, Providence delivers the most precise targeting of tumor cells currently available, including the use these technologies: