Treatment

When it is time for your treatment, you will be helped onto a treatment table by the radiation therapists who will adjust your position to set up the treatment field. Once you are positioned, the therapists will ask you to remain still until otherwise instructed.

During treatment, the therapists do not stay in the room with you but will monitor you on a television screen and will stay in contact with you through an intercom. Once treatment begins you may hear the noise of the machine—a humming/clicking sound. You will not see or feel the treatment. Once the machine has run for the prescribed time, it shuts off automatically. The therapists will then re-enter the room and help you off the table.

"On-treatment" Reviews

While you are on-treatment at the Maddock Center, you will be carefully monitored by our clinical team—the doctors and the radiation therapists. The physicians will examine you at least once a week or more often as needed. Periodically, blood tests, x-ray exams and/or other tests may be ordered. As your treatment progresses, Dr. Maddock, Dr. Lane or Dr. Blackman will help you manage any side effects, note any physical changes, keep in contact with your referring physician and, if necessary, recommend other forms of treatment to achieve the best care and results.

• Initial Consultation
• Simulation and Treatment Planning