IMRT

Latest CyberKnife treats first patients at The Royal Marsden

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. […]

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Improved IMRT delivery with QA system

Oncology Systems Limited medical physicist Asia Baginska, IBA customer support specialist Isabel Bong and radiotherapy physicist Dr Wendy Hyland. IBA (Ion Beam Applications SA) has announced the first clinical implementation of Dolphin Online Ready Patient QA and Monitoring solution in the UK.  The treatment monitoring technology distributed by Oncology Systems Limited to Altnagelvin Area Hospital, […]

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Phantom boosts confidence in IMRT delivery at RMH

Royal Marsden Hospital physics QA lead Rollo Moore with Vertec product specialist David White. Royal Marsden Hospital, London, has received a Dose.Point RT-smart IMRT cylinder phantom supplied by Vertec Scientific. Physics QA lead Rollo Moore said: “One type of IMRT that is delivered at RMH Fulham Road is volumetric arc therapy, which uses clinical isocentric […]

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R&D dosimetrist wins acclaim at ESTRO33

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 […]

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Addenbrooke’s boosts VMAT for prostate cancer

In the back row are trainee physicist Tom Hague, head of radiotherapy Katharine Walker, research physicist Mark Ashburner and radiographers Cecelia Tawse, June Dean and Nicola Robinson.  In front are Elekta applications specialist Ian Morgan, radiographer Graham Cone, senior physicist Rosie Plaistow and radiographers Sophie Glavin and Stuart Archer. At Addenbrooke’s Hospital, more prostate cancer […]

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Patients return to launch Nottingham cancer centre

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 […]

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Workshop enlightens clinicians across Africa

Pictured in Durban with a RapidArc are workshop attendees. Clinicians from across Africa attended a week-long workshop sponsored by Varian Medical Systems where image-guided RapidArc IMRT technology was the focus of discussion. Doctors and decision makers from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Kenya and Angola gathered at Addington Hospital in Durban, which has treated 250 patients […]

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