Important advance with oncology medicine in Chivilcoy

The Chivilcoy Radiation Center was recently enabled. It is located at 171 Vicente Loveira Street and is intended for oncological radiotherapy treatment. The building was built under all the corresponding standards and qualifications.

Dr. Mario Dinucci is the medical director of the Center and in dialogue with LA RAZON, he maintained that the machine that we incorporate is a state-of-the-art linear accelerator, with two types of energies, electrons and photons. It can do all types of modern radiotherapy treatments, the high precision one, which through computers and images produces a very precise treatment to irradiate exactly to the place where the radiation is to be applied and not touch other organs or tissues that can be damaged. This seems very easy to say, from the technological point of view is complicated.

We are proud to have installed this Center in an area that required this technique. Here was a radiotherapy center with a cobalt machine, a long time ago, but it stopped working, he said, adding that we plan to serve an area of ​​almost 400,000 inhabitants, which implies a benefit to patients who require treatment, because they do not have to move to other cities.

The medical professional stated that the patient has to come to the place where the machine is and generally they are outpatient treatments of several days, between 30 and 50 days, every day. A patient who has to move to a center that is 150 kilometers away is 300 kilometers a day, if we multiply this by 30 days of mobilization alone, it is a high cost for the financier and also a loss of quality of life for the patient . Getting around is stressful, it is best to get treatment as close to home.

We are providing the service for some social works in Chivilcoy and now we are looking at the possibility of reaching an agreement with OSECAC and the approval of PAMI. Little by little we are going to incorporate all the providers. Directors of the Ministry of Health also contacted us because they are interested in the service we provide, he emphasized.

Dr. Dinucci said that the patient comes to the Center for the first time, referred by the surgeon or the oncologist. The evaluation is done to determine the type and amount of radiation. Once it is decided to carry out the treatment, a planning is made with a tomography or resonance. All patients have to have the imaging study because the machine that we have placed in the Center works with images of the patient. We must make a mold of the patient with a three-dimensional tomography to locate the area to be treated and with a computation process it is decided how to program the machine, so that it emits the radiation in the place that it has to emit it and not do it where it does not. you have to do it.

We are in a position to do modern radiation therapy, which is three-dimensional radiation therapy, intensity-modulated radiation therapy, and image-guided radiation therapy. If we must treat the lung, when the patient breathes this organ moves and changes position, therefore this machine has the advantage of being able to track the movement of the lung and not irradiate healthy tissue, he said and added that we can do radioneurosurgery, which is a highly specialized practice that enables tumors within the brain to be treated with a very fine beam of radiation and to treat cysts or brain tumors. We also do extracorporeal stereotactic radiotherapy, for tumors that are outside the central nervous system, which are done between two or four sessions to destroy the tumor cells, replacing surgery in some cases.

The idea is that our affiliates to the work can be attended in Chivilcoy

Omar Bellicoso, director of the OSECAC social work, visited the clinic with LA RAZON and said that they invited me to visit the clinic and it really is amazing, with a construction that I did not imagine from the outside. Knowing the bunker, where the famous machine is, which is the heart of all this, is surprising.

The idea is that our affiliates to the work can be served in Chivilcoy. It is an extraordinary work and a necessity, not only for the city but also for the region. We all have to make an effort so that this center is filled with patients who need to be cared for in a center like this, he emphasized.

Bellicoso recalled that patients who need rays are referred to the cities of Junn or the Federal Capital, which is why Chivilcoy deserved a center of these characteristics, with this technology applied for this type of cure. Nobody can be against this, on the contrary, therefore we are going to see if we can make an agreement.

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