During a working lunch held in Milan’s Interventional Oncology Conference last June, the interventional radiologist Dr. Anselmetti and the radiation oncologist Dr. Roberta Lazzari, both specialists from Milan’s European Institute of Oncology, one of the world’s most prestigious oncology hospitals, shared their favorable experience with the intraoperative radiotherapy device Intrabeam and the planner radiance.

More than fifty specialists from all around the world were given a first-hand account of the combined treatment of spinal metastasis with INTRABEAM and cement injections and the results obtained by Dr. Anselmetti with the first five patients treated with INTRABEAM and radiance and vertebroplasty. Dr. Roberta Lazzari’s speech stressed the capabilities offered by GMV’s inhouse development radiance, an intraoperative radiotherapy planner.

In Giovanni Anselmetti’s words “This method is simpler and better than radio-frequency or microwave treatment. So great are these benefits that we felt compelled to share them with a whole interdisciplinary team.”

For her part, Dr. Roberta Lazzari explained how to plan the treatment in a post OR CT scan, after which the surgeon places the needle during the operation in the planned position. She stressed the importance of radiance in the administration of intraoperative radiotherapy, increasing the accuracy and enabling the dose to be adapted to the specific anatomy of each patient.