Radiation Oncology

Dedicated to commemorate the life of Eleanor T. Snow, The Eleanor T. Snow Radiation Oncology Center is located at the Orange Regional Medical Pavilion on the first floor. The Center provides a comprehensive program of radiation oncology services. The Center may be accessed through a private entrance located on the west side of the Pavilion. Designated parking for radiation oncology patients is located adjacent to this entrance.

A Highly-Skilled and Dedicated Team

The treatment of cancer with ionizing radiation is a complex process requiring careful clinical evaluation, therapeutic decision making, treatment planning, simulation, selection of the appropriate modality, clinical care during treatment, and follow-up. To provide the best patient care requires highly-trained personnel and sophisticated, state-of-the-art equipment.

Our Center's highly-specialized radiation oncology team consists of board certified physicians, a physicist, dosemitrist, radiation therapists, nurses, therapy assistants and support staff who take great pride in their ongoing Performance Improvement Program. This program enables the staff to continually and systematically improve patient outcomes and care; identify opportunities for improvement; and organize, collect data, and promote analysis of that data.

Acutely aware of the importance of caring for the "total" patient, the oncology team utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to patient care, working very closely with all related ancillary departments such as physical and occupational therapies, nutrition services, and case management as well as outside agencies such as Hospice.

Treatment & Technology

Radiation therapy is a key element in the treatment of cancer. Fifty to sixty percent of patients diagnosed with cancer receive some form of curative or palliative radiation treatment during the course of their disease. Today, hundreds of thousands of patients are free of cancer as a result of having radiation treatments alone or in combination with surgery and/or chemotherapy.

Orange Regional Medical Center's radiation oncology program includes both "teleradiography" and "brachytherapy" modalities. Teleradiography refers to radiation therapy through which ionizing radiation is administered from an external source. This is most commonly referred to as "external beam therapy." Brachytherapy refers to the procedure(s) of placing the prescribed radioactive source directly on or near the affected site via surgical procedure or catheter. Teleradiograpy and brachytherapy may be used independently or in conjunction with one another.

Orange Regional offers radiation oncology services at two convenient locations.