IGRT

Having recently installed an Elekta Versa HD linear accelerator, Singleton Hospital in Swansea is planning on using the C-RAD surface image guided radiation therapy (SIGRT system), supplied by Vertec Scientific, for patients receiving breast radiotherapy treatment when the machine goes live in spring. SIGRT is a technique that helps to deliver highly accurate radiotherapy treatments. […]

At Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, with a C-Qual Breastboard from IEL, are radiographer Katrina Statham, senior radiographer Megan Haworth, treatment superintendent radiographer Owen Morris, senior radiographer Scarlett Armstrong-Rand, clinical oncologist Dr Anne McCormack and senior radiographer Owen Pearce. A range of patient positioning and immobilisation devices for treatment of the thorax, abdomen and breast […]

Clinical nurse specialist Rebecca Bentley, SRS lead radiographer Rachel Clements, consultant clinical oncologist Dr Luis Aznar-Garcia, IGRT lead radiographer Suzanne Jordan, SRS lead physicist Anna Bangiri and radiotherapy services manager Russell Hart. Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the first trust in the UK to have installed pioneering equipment to enable patients in the East Midlands […]

Michelle Leech presents the award for best RTT poster at ESTRO33 to Hayley Chesham. Presentation of research into prostate cancer treatment, carried out by R&D lead dosimetrist at Cancer Partners UK Hayley Chesham, has won an RTT poster award at ESTRO33. The event in Vienna focused on new and emerging developments in radiation oncology, providing […]

Staff and past patients gathered at Park Cancer Centre  are manager and lead radiographer Susie McAllister, hospital director Ken Hay, Professor Karol Sikora, Briony Clarke, Cancer Partners UK chief executive Steve Bird, Meg Sutton, consultant oncologist Dr Eric Bessell, Julie Smith-Yeomans and Debra Rawson. A cancer centre in Nottingham has been officially launched with a […]

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 […]