Procedure of a radiotherapy session
You will receive radiotherapy every day, apart from Sundays, in order to keep the treatment period as short as possible. (Sundays are set aside for system maintenance and inspections.) The RPTC is operational for at least 12 hours a day on all other days--including public holidays--from 7.00 a.m. until 7.00 p.m.
In practice, the entire process proceeds as follows:
- Immediately before your appointment, you go to the ground floor of the Centre. You will wait there for a few minutes on the couch in front of the changing room until you‘re called.
- You will remove your clothes in the changing room. Your personal contour couch can then be placed in the right position. You‘ll have your own clothes locker at your disposal.
- The immobilization room is next to the changing room, and the staff there will help you to position you in the couch with the vacuum bed modeled to your shape. You will then be taken to one of the five therapy rooms. The technicians are always present, except during the short radiation period. The adjustment movements of the patient table are only carried out in the presence of the technician. You don't have to do anything at this time.
- After the period of a few minutes during which the radiation is carried out, you will be pushed into a mobilization room where you‘ll receive assistance in "getting out of" the contour couch. You will go into a dressing room just on the other side of your locker. It's all over, and you can use the rest of the day to recover.