Portsmouth, Va. From left, Cmdr. Timothy Barkdoll, the Radiation Oncology Division head; Debbie Smith, Clinical Division manager, and patient Steven Pledger, the first patient treated on the new linear accelerator, cut a cake during an open house in Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s (NMCP) Radiation Oncology Division. The Radiation Oncology Division debuted a new Varian TrueBeam linear accelerator during the Jan. 25 open house and held a ribbon cutting for the $ machine that is revolutionary in the way it treats cancerous and benign tumors.

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