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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, […]

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is to receive a state-of-the-art radiotherapy system as part of a wider national government investment. The linac will replace an older system at Weston Park Cancer Centre (WPCC). The trust is one of 28 hospitals across the country to have been awarded the government funding, which has prioritised replacement […]

Siemens Healthineers showcased its latest MRI system at this year’s European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology Congress in Vienna, Austria. The 1.5T Magnetom Flow RT Pro Edition is helium-independent and does not require a quench pipe so it can be sited close to a linac to help deliver adaptive radiation therapy. Through AI-powered image reconstruction […]

Radiotherapy treatment and planning scan facilities have been upgraded at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust with Halcyon radiotherapy systems from Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, and Somatom go.Open Pro CT systems from Siemens Healthineers. The introduction of the new equipment at Castle Hill Hospital marks the launch of an integrated approach to cancer care […]

Weston Park Cancer Centre, Sheffield, has added a new Varian TrueBeam radiotherapy system, taking the number of radiotherapy linacs at the centre to eight. Over the course of its lifetime, the machine is expected to provide 100,000 complex treatments to around 6,500 patients undergoing cancer treatment. Clinical director Dr Jackie Martin said: “As a leading […]

Recent developments featuring miniature linear accelerators to deliver large radiation doses directly to the target have helped make treatment more accurate, faster and more adaptable. The American Society for Radiation Oncology says that intraoperative electron radiation therapy (IOeRT) can be used in clinical practice for the suitable group of breast cancer patients (low risk) as […]

Elekta has completed an important phase in a large project at Cork University Hospital by delivering five linacs in five days. The successful project was the result of a team effort between Elekta, the Flegg’s rigging team and Cork University Hospital and involved several months of workshops, site inspections and careful planning. “A huge thank […]

Officially opening the latest TrueBeam is trust medical director Dr Nigel Sturrock (fourth from left), with Althea implementation programme manager George Iliopoulos (second from left) and trust department staff, consultants, and the first patient treated on the first TrueBeam to be installed. Installation of three linear accelerators in the radiotherapy department at Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS […]