AccuBoost® Offers a Safer Way to Minimize Cancer Recurrence

The Mary Washington Healthcare Regional Cancer Center has taken breast cancer treatment to the next level with AccuBoost®. It’s a safe, accurate, non-invasive image-guided breast irradiation system that decreases the chance of cancer recurrence in women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer who choose breast conservation therapy.

Following a surgical procedure to remove the tumor, followed by standard radiation, traditional breast conservation protocols require an additional “boost” dose of radiation to the tissues surrounding the former site of the tumor to inhibit cancer recurrence.

During a procedure similar to getting a 3D mammogram, AccuBoost employs mammography’s real-time digital imaging technology to precisely target and deliver that last important boost dose of radiation from four angles while simultaneously limiting healthy tissue’s unintentional exposure.

AccuBoost provides an extra layer of safety in breast cancer treatment and serves as another example of how the Regional Cancer Center always strives to go the extra mile. We stand among only a few cancer centers nationwide, including Cancer Treatment Centers of America, to provide our patients the option of breast-conserving AccuBoost therapy.