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Linear accelerator condenses therapy

February 22nd, 2015

Radiation therapy used to mean that a pet diagnosed with cancer had to undergo 15 to 20 radiation treatments over several weeks at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine’s (WCVM) radiation oncology service. Things changed in February 2014. That’s when the WCVM’s Veterinary Medical Centre became one of only four Canadian locations to offer advanced radiation therapy techniques using a …

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Radiation therapy technologist Rachel Bloomfield. Photos: Christina Weese.