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Among Saint Raphael’s many cancer milestones:
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1994
- Father Michael J. McGivney Center for Cancer Care opens. It’s named in honor of the Waterbury priest who founded the Knights of Columbus.
- Looking Forward cancer support and education program is founded.
1996
- Sister-to-Sister is started to seek out uninsured African-American women at risk for breast cancer.
1997
- Brachytherapy (implanted radioactive seeds) to treat prostate cancer begins.
1998
- Saint Raphael’s is the first area hospital to use stereotactic radiosurgery to precisely attack irregularly shaped brain tumors from multiple angles.
2001
- Saint Raphael's has one of Southern Connecticut's first PET scanners to help detect cancer in its earliest stages.
- Hospital opens renovated 22-bed inpatient cancer unit.
2002
- Saint Raphael’s becomes a national clinical trials site for radiation therapies.
2003
- Hospital performs 500th brachytherapy for prostate cancer.
- Saint Raphael’s becomes one of the few Connecticut hospitals to offer the precise and powerful IMRT for prostate cancer.
- Saint Raphael’s has the state’s first 3 Tesla MRI. Its detailed images allow for earlier diagnoses.
2004
- Saint Raphael’s performs 300th stereotactic radiosurgery procedure for brain tumors.
- Looking Forward celebrates its 10th anniversary.
- McGivney Center marks a decade of state-of-the-art cancer care.
- Saint Raphael’s new combined PET-CT scanner can pinpoint even the tiniest cancer cells.
2005
- New ultrasound technology is combined with IMRT to more precisely attack prostate cancer tumors.
- The new minimally invasive esophagectomy technique offers esophageal cancer patients shorter recovery, less pain and better outcomes.
- Saint Raphael’s again advances prostate cancer care, becoming the first Southern Connecticut hospital to offer robotic prostatectomy surgery.
2006
- Project Brotherhood is implemented to seek out, and treat, men at risk for developing prostate cancer.
- Amazing robotic surgical technique is now used to treat certain gynecological cancers.
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