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The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has become the first hospital in the world to treat a patient using an advanced radiotherapy planning system from RaySearch Laboratories. The technology introduces online adaptive radiotherapy (oART), which enables clinicians to make same-day adjustments to a treatment plan, while the patient is on the treatment bed. Treatment is […]

Men with prostate cancer are less likely to experience urinary and sexual side effects two years after treatment with an advanced type of radiotherapy than with surgery, according to researchers from The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London. The PACE-A study compares the long-term side effects of stereotactic […]

Cancer patients at The Royal Marsden in Sutton are now able to benefit from the latest radiotherapy technology following the arrival of a CyberKnife system this summer, funded by The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. The Accuray CyberKnife system is a 3D image-guided intensity modulated radiation therapy (IG-IMRT) system that includes treatment planning, imaging and delivery. […]

The meeting committee, chair Peter Dunlop from James Cook University Hospital, Judith Christian from Nottingham City Hospital, OSL’s Julie Mead, Tony Greener from Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Trust, Mark Elsworthy from Bupa Cromwell Hospital and  Neil Burnet from Addenbrooke’s Hospital. The first TomoTherapy UK User Group meeting took place at The Moller Centre in […]

In the rear, from left, are Rebecca Axton, Kelly Braithwaite, Melanie Duffield, Brian Laframboise, Gemma Murray, Stuart McCaighy, Sinead Connelly, Brendan Done, Matthew Clarke, Thomas Ashford, Anna Thompson and Mary McQuaid.  In the front row are Sian Reece, Bindia Jethwa, Varsha Patel, Amanda Owusu-Osei and Helen Sales.   The London Clinic is the largest independently-owned […]

In the CyberKnife suite at Harley Street Clinic are, from left, sales manager northern Europe for Accuray EMEA Barry Bonner, CyberKnife lead radiotherapist Bernadette Stack, radiosurgical principal physicist Ian Cowley, radiotherapist Bronwyn Middleton, senior sales director for Accuray EMEA Guillaume Tetard, radiotherapist service manager Kim Marcus and clinical fellow Alex Martin.   Accuray reports that […]