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Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Nov 29 10:40pm | Replies (22)
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I believe this is the MRIdian system by the company ViewRay which was on the verge or had filed for bankruptcy protection and was searching for a buyer. There is or was a phase II trial of the technology at several sites in the US and one international site. The last update regarding the study was posted in 2022.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03621644

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marienewland | @mnewland99 | Nov 28 7:24am

This is interesting but very bizarre to me as my oncology care is under UCLA right now and one of the study locations cited is at UCLA. After reading about other posts about radiation treatments using Viewray I asked my UCLA medical oncologist about radiation he replied, “We don’t do that” and that they considered it basically dated technology. I can only assume now he’s not familiar with Viewray or MRIdean. After reading someone’s post a few months ago that Dr. Percy Lee (he’s at City of Hope in Irvine), had trained with the team at Harvard that did MRIdean radiation, I decided to set it up for myself. I hope to switch to City of Hope in Irvine for my pancreatic care once the construction on their hospital is completed (October 2025). Thank you @stageivsurvivor for posting the link to this study.

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