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Radiation Machine New To Mayo La Crosse

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One La Crosse hospital is unveiling the latest generation in radiation

therapy machines…

 

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The new device at Mayo Clinic Health System is called a linear accelerator, which delivers radiation to cancer patients. Abigail Stockham is a cancer specialist at Mayo in La Crosse. She says the ‘True Beam’ machine allows doctors to give radiation treatments more accurately:

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Dr. Stockham says the Mayo staff had months of training with the new machinery before routinely using it on patients.

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