Dr. Marta Scorsetti

Professor Marta Scorsetti is the Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery Unit Director at Humanitas Research Hospital. Her main medical interests are lung, gastrointestinal and brain tumours, integrated radiation-chemotherapy treatments and special techniques such as Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT). She also handles special projects to help oncological patients, such as the Shiatsu service , muscle therapy and the make-up laboratory. Professor Marta Scorsetti has improved the most modern radiation therapy techniques, especially the SBRT. With her improvements, it is now possible to irradiate small lung and abdominal tumours at high doses with extreme accuracy and precision. Furthermore, she has improved the development of IMRT (Intense Modulation Radiation Therapy) and the implementation of VMAT (Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy) that guarantees a shorter duration of treatments and allows the irradiation of small volumes also in small body areas, difficult to reach due to their concavity. She has introduced in Humanitas Research Hospital the instrumentations to perform Adaptive Radiotherapy, that permits a precise and accurate irradiation of lesions in motion, making Humanitas Research Hospital the first centre in Italy to use it. Professor Scorsetti also implemented a new linear accelerator with high-dosage FFF beams (TrueBeams), working with the manufacturer to start new treatment protocols.