Duncan McLaren

An overview of the PROSECCA project

Up to half of prostate cancer patients receive radiotherapy as part of their treatment and, although it is effective at destroying cancerous lesions deep within the body, this comes at the cost of damaging healthy, or normal, tissues. With 78% of prostate cancer patients surviving for 10 years or more, limiting life-changing side effects for […]

Professor Bill Nailon, Dr David Noble, Zhuolin Yang, Sarah Elliot, Alasdair Rutherford, Dr Tony Hallam, Dr George Beckett, Professor Duncan McLaren

Edinburgh Cancer Centre; University of Edinburgh; Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre

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Radiomics and radiotherapy

The treatment of cancer with systemic therapy is increasingly personalised to the patient, with drug regimens chosen based on the genetic and molecular profile of the tumour. In comparison, radiotherapy treatment is rarely individualised to the patient, with doses and fractionation schedules based on those used in clinical trials, despite it being known that tumour […]

Angus Killean, Iain Phillips, William Nailon, Duncan McLaren

Edinburgh Cancer Centre, University of Edinburgh

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