Northern Centre for Cancer Care

The Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) in Newcastle has reached a significant milestone, treating more than 1,000 prostate cancer patients using an automated radiotherapy planning system that is helping deliver faster and more consistent care. The Varian Edge system enables the team to create radiotherapy treatment plans more efficiently and with greater precision. Normally, […]

The Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC) in Carlisle has commenced offering a stereotactic ablative radiotherapy treatment (SABR) service. This follows a collaboration between North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which operates the radiotherapy centre at Carlisle. Although access to SABR for patients in north Cumbria […]

The addition of a Siemens Healthineers Magnetom Sola 1.5T MRI scanner at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria, is a milestone for the local population. As part of the treatment pathway of radiotherapy patients, the scanner located at Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle is primarily used for diagnostic purposes. Access for imaging cancer patients […]

NHS Supply Chain has supported the pilot of the Elekta ProKnow cloud-based software solution and now ordered licences for 50 NHS trust hospitals over three years as well as education and training. It follows an extensive phase of provider testing that enabled more than 20 radiotherapy centres in England to access, test and assess the […]

Senior radiographer Steve Harris, consultant clinical scientist Dr Hazel McCallum, senior radiographers Tim Dowling and Abbie Clough, superintendent radiographer Jill Mckenna and senior radiographer Ruth Nisbet. The Northern Centre for Cancer Care has celebrated its 10,000th MRI patient scan.  It claims to have been the first centre in the UK to routinely use MRI to […]