Assessing and treating patients who are afflicted with metastatic cancer to the spine, liver, brain, prostate and lungs is a difficult and complex process. But there is another option when you come to Tufts Medical Center.
The Cancer Center at Tufts Medical Center has one of the most unique, collaborative environments you will find among other teaching hospitals in Boston. We combine this approach with our extensive technological capabilities, including the recent addition of an Elekta Axesse™ for the most sophisticated image-guided radiation therapy and stereotactic radiosurgery.
At Tufts Medical Center, collaboration is not the ‘fad of the moment,’ but rather something we rely and depend on when it comes to working with community oncologists. The referring physician's involvement is key to our approach to assembling the appropriate treatment plans for patients. Our ongoing communication with referring physicians ensures that the best care of the patient.
Treatment options encompass the most cutting-edge surgical and radiation therapy technologies. We’re home to the Boston Gamma Knife Center, the only Gamma Knife radiosurgery unit in Northern New England. By using precisely focused radiosurgical beams, the Gamma Knife offers an alternative to open surgery for many brain diseases. The new Elekta Axesse™ Image-Guided Radiation Therapy System similarly offers radiosurgical precision to eliminate tumors of the spine, liver, lungs and prostate, while sparing the surrounding healthy tissue.
Along with our advanced technology and our collaborative approach comes the strength of our multidisciplinary teams, experienced in the complexities of treating metastatic cancers. Our senior clinicians and other caregivers in all relative disciplines, including thoracic surgeons, hepatobiliary surgeons, neurosurgeons, radiation oncologists, neuro-oncologists, medical oncologists, pain specialists and interventional radiologists, consult together with you, not in silos, to determine treatment plans.
We welcome the opportunity to partner with you in the care of patients afflicted with metastatic cancer. Please call us at 617-636-1100 to learn more or see our radiation oncology service pages.
David E. Wazer, MD
Radiation Oncologist-in-Chief