St. Joseph Hospital selects IntraOps Mobetron for cancer treatment

St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif. has selected IntraOp’s Mobetron device to deliver intraoperative electron radiation therapy to cancer patients.

St. Joseph Hospital is one of 14 hospitals in the St. Joseph Health System throughout California and Texas. The hospital currently treats more than 1,500 new cancer patients annually.

Mobetron will be used at St. Joseph’s to treat a wide variety of cancers, including breast, colorectal, head and neck and abdominal cancers, according to the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based IntraOp.

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