Southeast Missouri Hospital continues to invest in technologies, personnel and programs that make it possible for Southeast to provide oncology services that are unsurpassed in this region.

The clinical staff in Southeast’s Radiation Therapy Department includes a full-time in-house board certified radiation oncologist, as well a board certified Ph.D. medical physicist, a board eligible physicist, and a board certified medical dosimetrist. No other hospital in southeast Missouri has a full-time board certified physicist and a full-time board certified dosimetrist on staff.

Many of the diagnostic and therapeutic technologies housed in Southeast’s Regional Cancer Center are equal or superior to the equivalent technologies available at many of the nation’s best-known cancer treatment facilities.

Those technologies include:

• One of the few Novalis® Shaped Beam Surgery™ systems in the world (and the first in Missouri);
• A large-bore 16 slice Phillips CT Simulator for precise tumor targeting;
• A Varian Clinac 21EX linear accelerator, equipped to deliver Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), the same technology found at internationally-known cancer centers including M.D. Anderson, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Johns Hopkins, Stanford and the Mayo Clinic; and
• The daVinci® Surgical System for robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy procedures, only the third such system in Missouri.