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Tattoo & mark-free breast radiation

Receive precise breast radiation treatment without permanent tattoos or skin marks. Advanced imaging helps ensure accurate positioning for every session while supporting your comfort and confidence.

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To target the same area for treatment from one day to the next, a common step early in the process is to tattoo patients with, on average, three or four small marks. These marks are meant to ensure proper alignment with the equipment, and to guide the therapists.

Some patients aren’t bothered by these tattoos. Others bear them proudly as a mark of their journey.

For many patients, however, these tattoos are painful, in a sensitive area, and simply unwanted.

By using advanced imaging techniques and computer algorithms, Atlantic Health provides improved accuracy to the target site without the need for tattoos. Instead of using permanent or semi-permanent marks to properly align patients with the equipment, the equipment itself monitors patient positioning with sub-millimeter accuracy.

The accuracy of these measurements ensures proper positioning for every scheduled dose over the course of the treatment plan, without the need for tattoos or other marks.

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