For patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT), the heart’s rhythm turns into a chaotic short circuit — beating so fast it can’t pump blood. Standard treatment can mean a procedure as involved as a 6-hour surgery. Too often, the heart doesn’t cooperate. Cardiologist Phillip Cuculich, MD, needed a better way forward. He asked a colleague a simple but audacious question, “Do you know anybody in radiation oncology who would be crazy enough to think about ablating cardiac tissue?” That question changed everything.
How an unlikely collaboration revolutionized heart treatment
