Spectrum Cancer Pavilion tries team approach
Holding your breath for 12 seconds is no big deal.Unless you’re a cancer patient.
“To some of them, it’s very long,” said Emily Oleneack, a technician displaying a $1.3 million CAT scan machine Sunday during Spectrum Health’s public opening of the Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion.
Patients with lung cancer or those weakened by treatment will have to hold their breath for only up to six seconds as the “Lightspeed VCT” scans for tumors.
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