DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY
The Department of Radiation Oncology was established in 2004 and began accepting patients in 2006. Between 2006 and 2023, it operated on the first floor of the Gaziantep University Oncology Hospital in Kızılhisar Village. Due to technological advancements, the three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (radiation therapy) equipment in our department at the Kızılhisar oncology hospital became unusable. Therefore, an additional building, named the 100th Anniversary Oncology Hospital, was constructed near the Şahinbey Research and Application Hospital building of our university. A state-of-the-art radiotherapy device (Radixact Tomotherapy) was quickly installed on the ground floor and allocated to our department. Patient admissions began in the new location in January 2024.
The main goal of Radiation Oncology is to treat tumors with radiation (rays) while protecting healthy tissues and organs surrounding the tumor. The Radixact Tomotherapy is the best treatment device in its class for this purpose. The Radixact device is the newest model in the family of devices known as "tomotherapy." It is still a rare device worldwide. Its most fundamental feature is its helical (circular) base. The system is formed by combining megavoltage computed tomography (CT) function with linear accelerator systems in a single device.
The Radixact device has a high conformity dose intensity adjustment capacity with 6MV energy, and similar to a CT scanner, it creates the desired homogeneous dose in the treatment area with irradiation applied while the gantry rotates continuously. Thus, while delivering the desired high dose to the targeted tumor, it makes a sharp dose reduction in healthy tissues outside the target, treating patients with minimal side effects. Another important feature of the device is the lack of limitations on the treatment area size. Unlike other radiotherapy devices, thanks to its wide treatment area of 40x130cm in one direction, whole bone marrow, whole body irradiation, and craniospinal irradiations can be performed in a single session. Thanks to the computed tomography (CT) feature of the device, the patient's daily anatomical changes can be monitored with real three-dimensional images, and three-dimensional treatments can be performed with great precision.
The main treatment techniques performed with the Radixact device are: Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT, 3DCRT), Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT), Image-Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT), Adaptive Radiotherapy, and Whole and Half Body Irradiation (TBI).
Our department currently has 2 faculty members, 1 lecturer, 1 medical physicist, and 5 radiotherapy (radiation therapy) technicians. Cancer patients diagnosed with cancer and requiring radiotherapy can be treated accurately and reliably in our department, and their post-treatment follow-ups are carried out. For this purpose, our clinic has one general oncology outpatient clinic and one gyneco-oncology outpatient clinic.
Academic Staff
Doç.Dr. ABDURAHMAN KUZHAN (ANABİLİM DALI BAŞKANI)