MR-linac

A father from Cheshire has become one of the first patients in the world to take part in a study by researchers working at The Christie, Manchester, to measure the amount of oxygen in their tumour. Hypoxic cancers are more challenging to…
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A grandfather of three has become the UK’s first lung cancer patient to benefit from Elekta MR-linac radiotherapy treatment at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. Barry Staniforth was treated using the equipment that performs real-time MR…
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Therapeutic radiographers in The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust’s MR-linac unit have started treating patients for the first time without a clinical oncologist present, following a training and supervision programme. The Royal…
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Radiotherapy is a highly effective local anti-cancer treatment delivered to around 50-60 per cent of cancer patients.  Installation of the Bayer-Medrad contrast injector on The Christie's Unity MR linear accelerator (believed to be a world…
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A Stockport woman is set to become the first patient in the world to be treated for cervical cancer entirely using state-of-the-art radiotherapy at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. Karen Hall, who lives in Offerton, will receive a full…
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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…
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Earlier this year, I attended the Australian Society of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy (ASMIRT) 2019 conference in Adelaide, Australia, to give a presentation about my experience using the MR-linac at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation…
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MR lead radiographer Dr Cynthia Eccles and lead research radiographer Dr Helen McNair with Evening Standard health editor Ross Lydall. On the eve of The International Day of Radiography, an important milestone in the clinical…
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Superintendent radiographer Sheena Chauhan and patient Mike Thorpe. A red rose, picked from the garden at The Christie by a patient, has been chosen as the first item to be scanned by the hospital's new MR-linac radiotherapy machine. The…
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HRH The Duke of Cambridge with The Royal Marsden and The Institute of Cancer Research joint head of physics Professor Uwe Oelfke, consultant clinical oncologist Dr Alison Tree and radiographers Helen McNair and Trina Herbert. HRH The Duke…
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