Axesse™ Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy

The stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) team at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has added the latest stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) technology to its cadre of treatment tools.

The Elekta Axesse™ SBRT linear accelerator offers highly-accurate targeting of tumors and lesions virtually anywhere in the body. Typically requiring only 1 – 5 treatments, it achieves excellent results in fewer treatments than required by standard radiotherapy. For patients, that means more convenience and a faster return to their daily activities with no discomfort and no hospital stay.

The Axesse combines 3-D image guidance with highly conformal beam shaping and robotic 6-D patient positioning to deliver fast, effective and accurate treatments.

Benefits 

• Increased sparing of normal tissue through improved accuracy over standard therapy 
• 4-D image guidance and 6-D patient positioning 
• Radiation dose escalation with improved local control 
• Shortened radiation treatment course increases patient convenience

Since even the slightest patient movement can impact the accuracy of a dose, other technologies can require that, when a patient moves at all, the treatment be interrupted so the patient can be repositioned. With Axesse, the unit’s built-in CT imaging can compensate for patient motion, allowing a more conformal dose in less time.

Our highly-trained physicists are among the most respected in the country. Their expertise, combined with the multiple energy sources offered by the system, allow planning and delivery of the most effective and accurate treatment to the patient. Offering the largest stereotactic field size available, Axesse enables more beam configurations and treatment options.

The ability to precisely conform the dose to the size and shape of the target offers clinicians the confidence to treat targets more aggressively while ensuring avoidance of healthy tissue and critical structures.

Axesse is truly a team effort. Specially-trained radiation oncologists, neurosurgeons, medical physicists, nurses and technicians collaborate to make the patient experience the most effective and pleasant it can be.

Indications for Elekta Axesse 

Curative Intent Therapies - SBRT 

• Stage I Lung Cancer 
• Recurrent Lung Cancer 
• Spinal cord cancers 
• Prostate cancer 
• Recurrent head and neck cancers 

Metastatic Cancer – SBRT 

• Lung metastasis 
• Spine metastasis 
• Liver metastasis from Colon or Breast Cancer 
• Bone Metastasis 
• Adrenal Metastasis 
• Oligometastatic cancers 

Image guided therapies (IGRT) – Curative Intent 

• Head and neck cancer 
• Locally advanced lung cancer 
• Esophageal cancer 
• Stomach cancer 
• Pancreatic cancer 
• Recurrent gynecologic cancers 
• Retroperitoneal sarcomas