Associates in Radiation Oncology, P.C. (ARO) is dedicated to the treatment of cancer using a comprehensive approach that begins with state-of-the-art technologies that are integrated into a caring and compassionate environment. We believe that personal attention to detail is as important as delivering optimal treatments.

Radiation therapy is the therapeutic use of high energy x-rays to treat cancerous tumors or areas from which tumors were removed. Radiation therapy may be used to try to cure cancer, to control the growth of the cancer or to relieve symptoms such as pain. Unlike other forms of x-rays, therapeutic radiation is more penetrating and focused. The radiation disrupts the genetic make-up of both normal and cancerous cells. The damage to normal cells is usually temporary and repairable; however, the damage to cancer cells is intended to be permanent. This damage helps to prevent the cancerous cells from reproducing. Sometimes, radiation therapy is the only treatment a patient needs, and other times it is integrated with chemotherapy and/or surgery.

Some patients have concerns about the safety of radiation therapy. Radiation has been used successfully to treat patients for more than a century. External beam treatments, such as those provided at this Center, do not cause the patient to become radioactive following treatment because the radiation does not stay in the body.