Advanced Radiotherapy Technology

Where Precision Meets Hope in Cancer Care

Noninvasive | Accurate | Painless

A New Ray of Hope in Cancer Care

Radiation Therapy (Radiotherapy) is one of the modalities used to treat cancer. At Apollo Hospitals, Pune, we have Pune’s first VARIAN EDGE LINAC which enables delivery of conventional as well as high dose of conformal radiation with minimal adverse effects.

Advanced Radiotherapy Technology offered

IMRT

(Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy)

The radiation beam adjusts its intensity across the tumor, delivering high doses to cancer while minimizing exposure to healthy tissue. Result: maximum cancer control with minimal side effects.

IGRT

(Image-Guided Radiation Therapy)

Before each treatment, we take a real-time image of your tumor using conebeam CT to confirm exact positioning. This means submillimeter perfect accuracy every single time. Result: you get the safest, most precise treatment possible.

VMAT

(Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy)

The gantry of LINAC rotates around the target in one or more arcs while continuously delivering radiation, adjusting the intensity and shape of beam. This enables conformal, fast radiation delivery with minimal dose to organs at risk thereby reducing late adverse effect.

SRS

 (Stereotactic Radiosurgery) one of the most advanced, highly precise treatment for intracrainal lesions using high dose of focal, conformal radiation delivered in a single session. Though the name has surgery in it but neither incision nor any sort of scalpel or anesthesia is used. It offers high tumor control rate for brain metastases, pituitary adenomas, meningiomas,acoustic schwannoma etc.

SRT

(Stereotactic Radiotherapy)

it is similar to SRS but instead of one fraction 3 to 5 fractions are given. it is also OPD basis procedure where patient can resume there daily routine immediately after completion of procedure

 

SBRT

(Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy)

Similar to SRS, but for extracranial tumors like that in lungs, liver, spine, prostate, pancreas etc. High dose of conformal radiation is delivered in 1 to 5 sittings. it is a safe modality and can be used instead of surgery with good tumor control rate.

DIBH

(Deep Inspiration Breath Hold) This is a respiratory motion management technique where patient takes a deep breath and holds for a few seconds and during this phase radiation is delivered. Used for left sided breast cancer,mediastinal tumors, lung cancer etc. this technique offers reduced radiation dose to nearby normal structures like heart, lung etc

Adaptive Radiotherapy

Many a times during course of radiotherapy there occurs anatomical or biological changes in patient for example weight loss, tumor shrinkage so instead of using the same plan for the entire treatment ART adapts the plan based on new imaging and patient changes. By adapting one avoids underdosing of the tumor and overdosing to normal tissues.

PET-CT & MRI based planning

PET CT and MRI based planning is very useful for proper delineation of tumor. by using such advanced modality chance of tumor miss is zero thereby giving maximum tumor control.

Breaking Myths about Radiotherapy

Myth: Radiotherapy is painful.
Fact: Radiotherapy is completely painless. You feel nothing during treatment. In fact radiotherapy is used to alleviate pain due to bone metastasis.

Myth: The radiation will make me radioactive.
Fact: No. Radiation is external and leaves your body the moment the machine stops. You are not radioactive, and you cannot pass radiation to family members or children.

Myth: Radiotherapy will burn my skin.
Fact: Modern radiotherapy rarely causes burns. Skin irritation is mild and temporary—like a light sunburn. Advanced planning and techniques minimize this further

Myth: I’ll lose all my hair.
Fact: You only lose hair in the area being treated. If your scalp isn’t in the radiation zone, your hair stays intact. Hair loss is temporary and regrows after treatment

Myth:Radiotherapy damages my organs permanently. Fact: Healthy organs are protected by modern treatment planning. radiotherapy planning is such that only tumor is targeted and surrounding health tissue is spared.

Myth: Radiotherapy causes secondary cancer.
Fact:The risk of secondary cancer from modern radiotherapy is extremely rare—much lower than the risk of cancer returning if you don’t get treated. The benefit far outweighs the risk.

Myth:  Radiotherapy stops me from working or living normally.
Fact:Most patients continue working, exercising, and caring for family during radiotherapy. 

Frequently Asked Questions

Radiotherapy is a non-invasive cancer treatment that uses focused beams of high-energy radiation (X-rays or particles such as protons) to target and destroy cancer cells – without surgery, without cuts, without hospital stay.
Painless
The treatment is painless. it is OPD basis treatment which hardly takes 10 min. As soon as you complete your treatment session you are good to go.
A Local Treatment
Radiotherapy is a local treatment – it targets cancer in one specific area of your body. The radiation is so
precisely focused that it damages cancer cells while protecting the healthy tissue around them. Modern
radiotherapy is one of the most effective, safest cancer treatments available today.
Whether you’re being treated for cancer alone or alongside surgery or chemotherapy, radiotherapy gives you the best chance at recovery with minimal disruption to your daily life.
 
Cancer cells grow because their DNA is damaged. However, they can’t repair themselves the way healthy cells can. Radiotherapy works by delivering high-energy beams that damage cancer cell DNA even further, stopping them from growing and dividing.
The key difference is that the healthy cells have repair systems that fix damage quickly. Cancer cells don’t. So the radiation stops cancer growth while your healthy cells bounce back.
Each radiotherapy session adds to the damage, weakening cancer cells with every treatment. Over time,
cancer cells die, and tumors shrink. You stay strong because your healthy cells are protected and repair
themselves.
Radiotherapy is used to treat many conditions—and for different reasons depending on your situation.
 
For Cancer:
  • As primary treatment: known as defintive radiotherapy used to treat prostate cancer, oropharyngeal cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, hypopharyngeal cancer, upper cervical esophageal cancer, cancer of cervix etc
  • After surgery: Called adjuvant radiotherapy, it is used to treat microscopic disease which in turn prevents tumor recurrence.
  • Before surgery: Called neoadjuvant radiotherapy, it is used to downstage tumor which in turn improves survival outcome
  • Alongside chemotherapy: known as concurrent chemoradiation wherein small dose of chemotherapy is added along side radiotherapy to sensitize the tumor therefore improving outcome.
  • For symptom relief: Called palliative radiotherapy to improve pain symptom cause by bone metastases, to stop tumoral bleed.

For Benign (Non-Cancerous) Conditions: Radiotherapy is also used to treat benign brain conditions like arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), acoustic shwannoma, meningioma, chordoma, pituitary adenoma, trigeminal neuralgia etc

radiotherapy is widely used to treat malignant conditions like head and neck cancer, breast cancer, GBM, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, rectal cancer, cervix cancer, prostate cancer etc