HaysMed Foundation raises money for new radiation equipment (VIDEO)

HaysMed CEO Dr. John Jeter announces the fundraising campaign "Envision a Future Without Cancer...One Patient At a Time." — HaysMed CEO Dr. John Jeter announces the fundraising campaign “Envision a Future Without Cancer…One Patient At a Time.”

By BECKY KISER
Hays Post

Imagine cancer radiation treatment that greatly reduces the number of times a patient needs to undergo treatment and the length of those treatments reduced from 45 minutes to two minutes.

That’s the power of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy.

The HaysMed Foundation kicked off a $1.3 million fundraising campaign Friday toward the cost of replacing the hospital’s current 14-year-old linear accelerator.

“With SBRT,” explained Dr. Babu Prasad, HaysMed radiation oncologist, “we are able to pinpoint higher doses of radiation therapy to the tumor and get more accurate results than ever before”:

Prasad and his family made opened the fundraiser with a $100,000 pledge to the campaign.

Dr. John Jeter, HaysMed president and CEO, said the total cost of the SBRT project is approximately $3 million.

“Our foundation has offered to raise private funds toward the cost of the equipment. Once the initial funds are raised, the balance will be paid by HaysMed,” Jeter said.

Donations for the campaign can be made online at www.haysmedfoudnation.org/envision.