GenesisCare

Low dose radiotherapy (LDRT) is gaining renewed attention in the UK as a treatment option for selected benign and inflammatory conditions. By delivering carefully controlled radiation doses, clinicians can achieve meaningful symptom relief – often improving mobility, comfort and overall quality of life – for a large subset of patients, while maintaining a favourable tolerability […]

Cancer care specialist GenesisCare’s Nottingham centre has reopened after a refurbishment that includes an Elekta Evo linac. The system provides precision radiotherapy treatment with advanced imaging and motion management, minimising the potential of damage to healthy tissue. It will be used for treating patients with many types of cancer, including brain, lung, breast and prostate, […]

Private cancer care provider GenesisCare has officially opened its state-of-the-art centre in Guildford, Surrey, boosting cancer care in the region. The £30 million specialist outpatient centre for oncology and radiotherapy will be led by an experienced team, increasing access to the latest innovations in diagnostics and radiotherapy for patients from Surrey and beyond. The medical […]

Cancer care specialist GenesisCare has selected an Amulet Innovality mammography system from Fujifilm for a second UK site. The breast team at the Cambridge hospital perform screening and symptomatic examinations, and the single system design of the Amulet Innovality will allow it to easily expand its service to more specialised diagnostic techniques in future, including […]

GenesisCare and Vision RT have agreed a global strategic partnership to increase access to world-class precision radiation therapy technology. Under the agreement, Vision RT will supply at least 15 AlignRT radiation therapy systems over two years to GenesisCare centres in Australia, USA, UK and Europe, adding to the fleet of pre-existing systems that are available […]

MRI Safety Week is an international event held annually in July to commemorate six-year-old Michael Columbini, who died in 2001. After undergoing an MRI examination at Westchester Medical Centre, New York, he was involved in an accident whereby his head was crushed by a metal oxygen tank being pulled across the room from the MR […]

The UK’s first ViewRay MRIdian MR-linac has gone live at GenesisCare Oxford and delivered its first fully online-adaptive treatments to patients in December. Working non-stop for two months meant that the project team completed the fastest installation and commissioning of a MRIdian linac so far and met the go-live date. Senior radiographer Tejal Patel explained […]

Provider of private cancer care services GenesisCare has joined The British Institute of Radiology as a corporate member. GenesisCare delivers holistic oncology care at 12 specialist treatment centres in the UK, spanning radiotherapy, medical oncology, diagnostics, wellbeing services and now theranostics. Head of theranostics and imaging Emma Spellman said: “We are excited to join the […]