Shenandoah Valley Cancer Center

Our physicians are experienced in treating many different types of cancer that may benefit from radiation therapy, either as primary treatment or combined with surgery and/or chemotherapy.  Please click on the titles below to explore ASTRO’s patient website, which has extensive information about the treatment of different types of cancer with radiation therapy.

A subset of early-stage patients may be candidates for a shorter course of radiation therapy, called “accelerated partial breast irradiation”.  This is a new technique, and many patients may not be appropriate candidates for this treatment.  Radiation therapy is delivered over a period of one week, twice a day, only to the portion of the breast that was involved with cancer.  We have written a registry protocol to closely track the control of cancer and cosmetic results of patients who are treated with this technique at RMH.

Radiation therapy is sometimes recommended after removing the whole breast (“mastectomy”) if there are certain risk factors that may predict recurrence of cancer in the lymph nodes or chest wall.  Radiation is given daily over a period of 6 weeks.