Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and Elekta recently expanded its longstanding partnership. Through this collaboration, the Mary Bird Perkins radiation oncology treatment team will have broader access to Elekta’s emerging and breakthrough radiation therapy technologies, benefiting patients throughout the organization’s network across Louisiana and southwest Mississippi. In Houma, Mary Bird Perkins partners with Terrebonne General Health System.
Through its partnership with Elekta and other organizations, the Cancer Center is able to offer treatment techniques and advanced technology typically found at academic institutions.
As part of the collaboration, Mary Bird Perkins’ radiation oncologists and scientists are instrumental in working to enhance Elekta’s technology through the medical physics partnership with Louisiana State University’s School of Physics and Astronomy.
Mary Bird Perkins will host Elekta’s North America Elekta Unity Users Meeting. Medical physicists, radiation therapists, radiation oncologists, and other radiation therapy professionals from around the United States and the world will have the opportunity to tour the Cancer Center’s facility on Essen. This meeting is the first of many working group meetings that will take place at the Cancer Center over the coming years.