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Information
MARCH 13, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
TRI-STATE REGIONAL CANCER CENTER
AWARDED AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY
ACCREDITATION

Tri-State Regional
Cancer Center in Ashland, KY has been awarded a
three-year accreditation in Radiation Oncology as a
result of a recent survey by the American College of
Radiology (ACR). The ACR awards accreditation to
facilities for the achievement of high practice
standards after a peer-review evaluation of the
practice. Evaluations are conducted by board-certified
physicians and medical physicists who are experts in
the field. They assess the qualifications of the
personnel and the adequacy of facility equipment. The
surveyors report their findings to the ACR’s Committee
on facility equipment.
Tri-State Regional Cancer Center was surveyed and
subsequently accredited by the Committee on Radiation
Oncology Accreditation of the Commission on Quality
and Safety earlier this year. Tri-State Regional
Cancer Center is the only cancer treatment facility in
the Tri-State to currently have this accreditation.
"This is an important milestone for our Cancer
Center," says Dr. Jeffrey Lopez, MD, Director of
Tri-State Regional Cancer Center. "This accreditation
is the product of a tremendous amount of work,
financial commitment to state of the art equipment and
dedication to quality patient care on the part of Dr.
Terry Justice and our entire staff. This is just one
part of our continuing process of improving the care
we provide to our patients."
Tri-State Regional Cancer Center provides
comprehensive Radiation Oncology services to patients
throughout Eastern Kentucky, Southern Ohio and Western
West Virginia. Radiation Oncology, also known as
radiation therapy, is defined as the use of high
energy x-rays or particles to treat cancer patients
and some benign conditions. The goal of radiation
therapy is to kill the cancer cells while sparing the
normal surrounding tissue. Radiation therapy may be
used alone, or combined with other treatments such as
chemotherapy and/or surgery. Tri-State Regional Cancer
Center offers advanced treatment techniques, such as:
3-Dimensional Conformal Radiation Therapy, Intensity
Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), Image Guided
Radiation Therapy (IGRT), Stereotactic Radiosurgery
(SRS), Respiratory Gating, Radioactive
Iodine/Palladium/Cesium Seed Implants for Prostate
Cancer, Brachytherapy for Gynecologic and Thoracic
Cancer, Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Brain Tumors,
and Intravascular Brachytherapy. For more information
on these treatments or about Tri-State Regional Cancer
Center services, just go to
www.tsrcc.com.
The ACR is a national organization serving more than
32,000 diagnostic-interventional radiologists,
radiation oncologists, and nuclear medicine and
medical physicists with programs focusing on the
practice of medical imaging and radiation oncology and
the delivery of comprehensive healthcare services.
Their website is
www.acr.org.
Contact:
Lori Bush 800-225-8161 or 606-329-0060
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