Watch: In a quest for more precise cancer care, hospitals invest in new tools — and new training, too
BOSTON — On a recent Wednesday morning at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a team of two radiation therapists, a radiation oncologist, and a physicist sat glued to a screen filled with black-and-white scans of a torso, watching as the tissues shifted slightly with each breath.
But the cancer treatment team wasn’t imaging a real tumor. Instead they were looking at a healthy adrenal gland. The person in the machine wasn’t a patient with cancer, but an academic administrator. And to the relief of everyone involved, the machine wasn’t turned on all the way.
