The Cancer Institute’s radiotherapy service has been equipped with a computerized tomography simulator that will greatly improve cancer treatment.

The equipment renders very precise images of internal organs helping doctors to come up with an accurate radiotherapy plan.

In 2018 alone, more than 50,000 radiotherapy and 125 magnetic fields sessions were given at the Cancer Institute. It takes the conjugated effort of radiotherapists, chemotherapists and surgeons to tackle malign tumors.

With this new piece of equipment, “conditions have been created for our over 3,000 cancer patients to receive radiotherapy treatment with very high technological precision”, said the Institute’s director Larisa Catrinici.

Purchasing the CT simulator was made possible by a project supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency.