Sheffield

Radiotherapy treatment at Weston Park Cancer Centre, Sheffield, has been significantly improved with the arrival of two state-of-the-art linacs. Installed at the facility as part of a £7m government investment, the technology will help patients across the region access faster and more precise radiotherapy. Unlike traditional machines, the new Varian Halcyon with Hypersight linac delivers […]

Weston Park Cancer Centre’s radiotherapy remote monitoring team has been named the British Association of Urological Nurses’ Urology Team of the Year after successfully implementing a remote monitoring service and nurse-led escalation clinic for prostate cancer patients receiving follow-up care after intensive radiotherapy treatment. The service in Sheffield, which aligns with the NHS 10-Year Health […]

Radiation treatment following surgery can be safely omitted in thyroid cancer patients whose disease is at low risk of returning, new study findings show. The Iodine or Not (IoN) study, which ran across 33 UK cancer centres including Weston Park Cancer Centre, Sheffield, set out to establish whether patients with low risk thyroid cancer could […]

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is celebrating a significant milestone in care as its National Centre for Stereotactic Radiosurgery marks 40 years of delivering Gamma Knife radiation treatments. Based at Royal Hallamshire Hospital, the centre made medical history in 1985 when it became the first centre in the UK, and the third in the […]

Researchers at Weston Park Cancer Centre, Sheffield, have recruited some of the UK’s first patients onto two groundbreaking radiotherapy trials. Teams from the Cancer Clinical Trials Centre were the first to recruit a UK patient into SCC-AFTER, a £3.4m National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) trial run by the Centre for Trials Research […]

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has installed a Philips Ingenia Elition 3.0T X MRI system at Royal Hallamshire Hospital. The trust conducts approximately 56,000 MR scans annually, focusing on advanced neuro and musculoskeletal imaging. “The system streamlines our workflow and has significantly improved scan efficiency, allowing us to process more patients in less time,” […]

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 […]

Patients undergoing bowel cancer treatment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will be invited to try out personalised ‘vaccines’ as part of a groundbreaking NHS ‘matchmaking’ service. The Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad aims to recruit thousands of patients across England into various trials of a new type of immunotherapy treatment, known colloquially as cancer vaccines. The […]