Rutgers Cancer Institute and RWJBarnabas Health are home to two of New Jersey's three MR-Linac systems, located at the Jack & Sheryl Morris Cancer Center in New Brunswick and the Melchiorre Cancer Center in Livingston. These centers are among a select group worldwide offering this innovative technology.
What is the MR-Linac?
The MR-Linac combines high-resolution MRI imaging with precise radiation therapy in a single system. By providing continuous, real-time images of the tumor and surrounding healthy tissue during treatment, the MR-Linac enables your care team to personalize and adapt your treatment plan as the tumor changes in size, shape, or position. This improves treatment precision while helping to protect healthy tissue.
This adaptive capability helps deliver radiation with exceptional accuracy, potentially reducing side effects, minimizing unnecessary radiation exposure to healthy organs, and, for some patients, shortening the overall course of treatment.
Conditions Treated with MR-Linac
- Bladder Cancer
- Gynecologic Cancers
- Kidney Cancer
- Liver Cancer
- Prostate Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Select other tumor types
Benefits of the MR-Linac
- Safe Extremely effective
- High degree of precision and accuracy
- Tracks the tumor size, shape and growth
- Reduced treatment time and total number of sessions needed
- No down time or recovery
- Minimal side effects
- Performed on an outpatient basis
- Reduced risk of complications
- Comfortable, fast and flexible
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RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute to Unveil One of the Most Advanced Radiation Oncology Technologies Available at the Jack & Sheryl Morris Cancer Center
In keeping with its commitment to bring the most advanced cancer treatments close to home for New Jersey residents, RWJBarnabas Health together with Rutgers Cancer Institute, the state’s only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, are now offering the Elekta Unity MR-Linac, a highly advanced imaging and radiation oncology technology, at the Jack & Sheryl Morris Cancer Center, the state’s only freestanding cancer hospital, located on the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital academic medical campus.