Advanced practitioner Jade St Louis-Rhodes, mould room technician Nadia Salama, advanced practitioner for lung Joanne Evans, advanced practitioners in pre-treatment Sharon Myers and Alex Cain with Oncology Systems Limited clinical specialist Serafine O’Brien.
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has become the first UK clinical user of the MacroMedics EagleBoard from Oncology Systems Limited. EagleBoard is said to offer an easier set up for patients that are undergoing radiotherapy to the chest or abdomen region, including patients with lung and oesophageal cancer.
Mould room technician Nadia Salama said: “EagleBoard has significantly improved the way we can position patients, increasing comfort and representing a huge step forward in facilitating SABR for radical radiotherapy lung patients. We are now able to use a vacuum cushion, an additional piece of equipment which supports the patient’s arms more than ever before, and produces a firm impression of exactly where they should be positioned during treatment.”
See the full report on page 4 of the December 2016 issue of RAD Magazine.