Treatment Options
At CARTI, we fight cancer. And we do it in a specialized way. Three primary forms (or modalities) of treatment are used to treat cancer: surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. CARTI specializes in radiation therapy. The goal of radiation therapy is to destroy cancer cells by maximizing the radiation dose to the tumor, while minimizing the dose received by surrounding healthy tissue, or healthy cells.

About 60 percent of all cancer patients will require radiation therapy during some phase of their cancer care. Radiation treatments may be just one part of an integrated (or a combined) cancer treatment strategy involving other modalities of treatment including surgery and chemotherapy.

The duration of treatment can vary by patient and type of cancer. However, the average patient receives radiation therapy treatments daily over a period of two to eight weeks.

Radiation therapy is delivered in a number of different methods, with each patient receiving the type of radiation treatment most appropriate to his or her situation. Please see the appropriate links on this page for more detailed information about the various methods of treatment.

A treatment team comprised of a radiation oncologist, registered radiation therapists, oncology nurses, a medical physicist and a dosimetrist work together to ensure the most effective treatment for each patient.