Weston Park Cancer Centre

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 […]

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 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 […]

Cancer patients in the Sheffield region are set to benefit from new treatments following the opening of a £4 million nuclear medicine and molecular radiotherapy suite at Weston Park Cancer Centre, Broomhill. Featuring precision technologies that can detect, image and treat tumours and visualise organ systems in real time, the suite will play a key […]

Staff from the Sheffield Gestational Trophoblastic Disease Centre, based at Weston Park Cancer Centre, have celebrated 50 years of providing care. Sixty years ago, the rare group of tumours that grow from the tissue that forms during pregnancy was invariably fatal, but with the development of specialised treatments it is now more than 95 per […]

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 […]