Advances in Treatment

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This is a short, but interesting, read about some advances in delivering radiotherapy in H&N cancers

New ‘ATS-lite’ radiotherapy treatment quicker and more robust | UK Healthcare News (nationalhealthexecutive.com) 

  • Thanks Peter interesting read. Onwards and upwards. 
    Hazel 

    Hazel aka RadioactiveRaz 

    My blog is www.radioactiveraz.wordpress.com  HPV 16+ tonsil cancer Now  6 years  post treatment. 35 radiotherapy 2 chemo T2N2NM.Happily getting on with living always happy to help

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  • Thanks Peter. Yes adaptive RT has become a reality once the physical separation of magnetic imaging and delivery of photons was overcome. Just imagine if you can image the tumour as it shrinks and tailor the beam to match,  you can avoid so much collateral damage too. 
    The next thing is FLASH. Trials in human patients  have just started to deliver a whole treatment in less than a second. Linacs can’t deliver that so proton cyclotrons have to be used. But the implications are astounding. 
    Radiotherapy will look back at what we went through in complete disbelief in a few years. 

    Dani 

    Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019

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