Radiotherapy is an important modality of cancer treatment. External beam radiotherapy (EBRT) is the most common form of radiotherapy, and it is estimated that 50% of all cancer patients will receive radiotherapy at some stage during their cancer journey. There have been major technical advances in EBRT in the past few decades. Accurate radiotherapy treatments […]
Fei Sun, Bashar Al-Qaisieh, Kevin Franks
St James's University Hospital
Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR), also known as stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), as defined by the American Society of Radiation Oncology and the American Society of Radiology is an external beam radiation therapy method used to very precisely deliver a high dose of radiation to an extra-cranial target within the body, using either a single […]
Dr Patrick Murray, Dr Kevin Franks, Dr Pooja Jain
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR), which is also referred to as stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), is defined as “the precise irradiation of an image defined extra-cranial lesion associated with the use of high radiation dose in a small number of fractions”. SABR is a relatively recent advance in the treatment of small peripheral non-small cell lung […]
Dr Brinda Sethugavalar, Dr Louise Murray, Dr Kevin Franks
Leeds Cancer Centre, St James's University Hospital