Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov)
Orit Gutfeld
At Sourasky Medical Center physicians perform radiation treatment for throat cancer in the Radiotherapy Department. The Hospital is equipped with cutting-edge devices, such as Novalis Truebeam linear accelerator. It allows minimizing radiation exposure time and consecutive side effects. With new devices, specialists reduced single session duration from 45 to 10 minutes.
Radiotherapy for throat cancer may be used as the main treatment option if the tumor is small enough. But it is also applied as additional management way before or after surgery.
Depending on disease progression, complete course of radiotherapy can take 3-8 weeks to finish. The cost of radiation therapy for throat cancer depends on its duration and additional medicines (if any).