The Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Cancer Center offers a full range of radiation therapy and treatment options for cancer using the most powerful, precise, and versatile treatment solution ever provided by one product allowing for customized patient treatments , the Trilogy System, which combines imaging and treatment technologies, and can be used to deliver the widest range of external beam radiotherapies for cancer and neurosurgical treatments.
- IMRT-Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy
- IGRT-Image Guided Radiation Therapy
- 3-D Conformal Radiotherapy
- General Brachytherapy (Ultrasound-guided seed implantation for prostate cancer)
- Stereotactic Radiosurgical procedures
The Radiation Oncology Department is staffed by a radiation physician, radiation nurses certified in Oncology Nursing, and a team of radiation therapy specialists who are registered and licensed by the American Registry of Radiological Technology in the state of Louisiana. The department is under the medical direction of a Board-certified Radiation Oncologist.
The Radiation Oncology Department is located on the north side of the main hospital building on Oak Park Boulevard, with a convenient, private entrance and lobby area. We are open Monday- Friday 8:00-4:30 with emergency service available on nights and weekends.
James Maze, MD, Radiation Oncologist, Cancer Center Medical Director
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