MARQUETTE -- An open house at Marquette General Hospital highlighted a new machine for cancer treatment.
The True Beam Linear Accelerator is a highly advanced tool in radio therapy. It allows a more efficient treatment that can be tailored for specific cancers.
The open house was a celebration thanking the many donors that helped raise money for the six million dollar machine.
This is the second linear accelerator in Michigan, only 1 of about 100 in the United States.
"It will save lives. It will treat patients in a more efficient way in terms of not damaging the tissues that are around the tumors that are possibly being damaged by other equipment," said MGH CEO Gary Muller.
Muller says the linear accelerator has been treating patients for a month now and has had excellent results.
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