The Department of Radiation Medicine at Georgetown University Hospital offers oncologic consultation and radiation treatment for a variety of cancerous diseases and serves as part of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, which is one of only 60 U.S. cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute as a comprehensive cancer center and the only one in the DC area. In March 2002, the Departments of Radiation Medicine and Neurosurgery became the first in the DC-metropolitan area with CyberKnife-based, frameless stereotactic radiosurgery of brain and spine tumors. Radiation Medicine’s other "firsts" include: intravascular coronary artery bracytherapy, stereotactic radiosurgery using the Brainlab/Varian micro-multileaf system, three-dimensional conformal radiation with high-energy linear accelerators.










