cancer

BMI The Park executive director Ken Hay, DD Porter Construction md Richard Porter, Cancer Partners UK head of radiotherapy Sarah Hynd, BMI The Park clinical director Liz Oke, architect Neil Atkinson and Cancer Partners UK governance and operations manager Sheila Hendy.   Building work has started on a state-of-the-art cancer centre in Nottingham. This is […]

Professor Anwar Padhani from Strickland Scanner Centre.   The International Cancer Imaging Society (ICIS) has announced the conferment of a personal chair by the Institute of Cancer Research to ICIS 2012 president Anwar Padhani.   The Chair was awarded for Professor Padhani’s work and research in the field of cancer imaging and recognises his ongoing […]

Outgoing president Professor Vincent Chong (right) hands over the ICIS parrot to incoming president Dr Anwar Padhani.   The 11th Society Meeting and Annual Teaching Course of the International Cancer Imaging Society (ICIS) took place in Copenhagen in October.  Delegates from 29 countries attended the three-day conference that included keynote lectures to address integrating morphological […]

Barnsley Council Welfare Rights Service’s Julie Watson and Amy Booth with Hartlepoole United manager Mick Wadsworth and cancer information manager Katie Hopkins.   Healthwise is Barnsley’s own Cancer Information Mobile Unit and, in January, it celebrated a year of being out and about in Barnsley.   Over the last year, more than 4,000 people have […]

CancerPartnersUK medical director Professor Karol Sikora with Spire Portsmouth hospital director Heather Dob, CancerPartnersUK ceo Rupert Cockcroft, first patient Suzette Smith, Sir Ranulph Fiennes and CancerPartnersUK non-executive director David Porter.   A new CancerPartnersUK image guided radiotherapy centre in Havant was officially opened by explorer and adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes Bt OBE, together with the […]

At the Royal Marsden in Sutton, South London, with the new Philips Achieva 3.0T MRI scanner (from left) are cancer centre co-director Professor Martin Leach, cervical cancer survivor Michelle Stepney, prostate cancer survivor and Darth Vader actor David Prowse, cancer centre co-director Professor Nandita deSouza and ICR chief executive Professor Peter Rigby.   A cervical […]

Nuclear medicine staff at London’s Charing Cross Hospital following the installation of a Siemens Biograph 64.   Charing Cross Hospital in London says it is anticipating a rise in cancer survival rates following the installation of a Biograph 64 TruePoint PETCT from Siemens Healthcare that provides detailed images, showing the stages of various cancers to […]