Hope is... state-of-the-art radiotherapy.

First Dayton Cancer Care is the region’s only freestanding facility using today’s most precise external treatment. With intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), image data from a CT (or “CAT”) scan is used to accurately plot treatment in three dimensions. IMRT then varies the shape and intensity of the radiation beam, delivering the highest dose directly to the cancer while surrounding tissues get the least. With IMRT, planning this sophisticated treatment can be done in minutes during your first visit, and treatment is delivered in minutes as an outpatient procedure.

Hope is... today’s most advanced brachytherapy.

Brachytherapy is radiation therapy applied directly to cancerous tissue. We are Dayton’s first and only facility to use CT-guided “high dose rate” (HDR) brachytherapy — the most precise form available — and have the only specially designed suite dedicated to it. Using CT imagery, computers precisely apply high doses directly to the cancer. Treatments take only 15 minutes... with fewer side effects and risks.

Hope is... tomorrow’s leading-edge methods.

At First Dayton Cancer Care, we’re always looking to provide the next-generation equipment and methods. Because it allows us to do today what others might push back for weeks... and to do in minutes what otherwise may take hours!