Precision Radiation for Prostate Cancer | NYU Langone #nyulangone

[0:00]One of the treatment options for prostate cancer is radiotherapy. The MRI-Linac provides unprecedented precision of the delivery of the radiation beam in the least invasive way of treating prostate cancer. How were we able to deliver it with such exquisite precision? It's by being able to use the MRI information to tell us where exactly the prostate is located. And not only that, to tell us where those normal tissues are located so the beam can be precisely delivered onto the target we're aiming at. Now, we could deliver these treatments much more safely. And with this machine much more precisely in only five sessions, five sessions delivered every other day. That translates into completing your course of therapy in a week and a half. What makes this program and NYU Langone Health, specially for this program, very unique, is the multidisciplinary team that we work with. We have a team of people working to make this actualized, and the team includes dose planners, physicists, MR therapists, nurses, and our administrators. Even our MR radiologists who help us designate or delineate where exactly the abnormal region in the prostate is located. The MR Linac gives us an opportunity of what we call real time adaptive planning. My name is Michael Zalewski. I'm a professor of radiation oncology at NYU Langone Health, and I also serve as the clinical director of the MR Linac program here at the institution.