Jefferson's radiation therapy cancer care takes place through the Department of Radiation Oncology at its Bodine Center for Cancer Treatment, Jefferson's Methodist Hospital (South Philadelphia) and the Jefferson-Frankford Hospital Radiation Oncology. Radiation oncologists subspecialize in tumor types and specialized therapies and are seeking to improve outcomes of cancer patients, in part through carefully combined and sequenced therapies enlisting the help of surgeons and medical oncologists.

In addition to a sizable core of patients who realize cures or palliation or resolution of their cancers through more traditional radiation therapy, other patients are benefiting from implanted radioactive seeds, radiation during surgery, or tissue heating as a cancer-killing modality. In the department's modern, computerized facilities, treatment strategies are made more precise through the input and research of the department's staff of radiation biologists and medical physicists.

The department evaluates over 2,000 newly-diagnosed cancer patients each year and offers clinical research trial participation to many. The department has a state-of-the-art system of image-based planning and treatment delivery. Many patients benefit from innovative applications of this technology in allowing more targeted delivery of their therapy.

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