Bumrungrad International will soon become the first hospital in Thailand to offer Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT). IGRT is a new technology for radiotherapy treatment of cancer that was first introduced in Europe in 2003. Though imaging technology has traditionally been used to identify the exact location of a tumor prior to treatment, difficulty arises when administering radiation since cancer tumors are constantly moving due to such things a breathing. IGRT is the leading and most accurate method for accurately targeting radiation to the cancer tumor.

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