The most advanced patient immobilization & repositioning system in radiation therapy.
Technical Papers
March 18, 2011
ALPHA CRADLE® DEVICES FOR INTACT BREAST PATIENTS Janet Protesto, RTT Bethesda Memorial Hospital Boynton Beach, Florida With the advent of lumpectomy and the preservation of patient’s breast, a variety of treatment techniques have arisen. Most radiation therapists have worked with the breast ramp, a cumbersome device to say the least. Securing the ramp to the ...
March 18, 2011
ALPHA CRADLE DEVICES IN BREAST CANCER TREATMENT Susan Hook, RTT Jane Pardy, RTR Boston, Massachusetts INTRODUCTION The treatment of breast cancer with radiation has always been a process that required a great deal of accuracy and consistency in patient set up. Today the treatment of choice for early stage breast cancer is biopsy or lumpectomy ...
March 18, 2011
ALPHA CRADLE® FOR TREATMENT OF THE BREAST PATIENT Eddie W. Scott, BSRT, RT Nashville Memorial Cancer Center Madison, Tennessee Over the past twenty years, there have been a great number of improvements in the field of radiation therapy. Since the early seventies, this field has acquired the use of sophisticated computed tomography and magnetic resonance ...
March 18,2011
ALPHA CRADLE® HS3 THORACIC MODIFICATION FOR BREAST & CHEST WALL PATIENTS Max Buscher Tufts New England Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts The majority of patients needing breast or chest wall irradiation are treated with opposing tangential photon fields. The problem of the sloping chest can be solved by collimator rotation or an angled breast board. Collimator ...
MARCH 18, 2011
BREAST POSITIONING DEVICE FOR PATIENTS WITH LARGE BREASTS UNDERGOING RADIATION THERAPY Gunilla C. Bentel, RN, RTT Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina INTRODUCTION Several studies have shown that local excision followed by radiation therapy in the management of early stage breast carcinoma yields results that are similar to that of a radical mastectomy.1,4,6,7 An ...
March 18, 2011
REPOSITIONING AND IMMOBILIZING THE BREAST WITH ALPHA CRADLE® DEVICES Jeffrey Vincent Kostich,President Smithers Medical Products, Inc. North Canton, Ohio 44720 One of the most difficult repositioning challenges offered to the medical professional is the successful repositioning and immobilization of the breast. A large flaccid breast offers the greatest challenge for successful replication of the desired ...
March 18, 2011
MEDICAL DEVICE REGULATIONS AND TRADEMARK USE Jeffrey Vincent Kostich, President Smithers Medical Products, Inc. North Canton, Ohio If I could add one requirement to the successful completion of any type of medical degree, I would require that each individual take a course detailing the law regarding medical device regulations and trademark use. Additionally, I would ...
March 18, 2011
UNUSUAL POSITIONING WITH THE ALPHA CRADLE® BRAND PATIENT REPOSITIONING SYSTEM Marcia L. Alonso Mario Branco, DGC Susie A. Romano Rosana T.R. Anselmo Regina G. Lopes Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein Sao Paulo, Brazil A 75 year old female patient with severe sifosis was diagnosed with carcinoma of the left breast and underwent a mastectomy. Due to ...