Hiii,, I have been diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer and have just finished chemotherapy treatment. The next phase of treatment is radiotherapy with chemotherapy. Recently I have been referred for Proton Beam Therapy via by my private health insurance company BUPA. Unfortunately, the proton beam treatment centers in the UK that BUPA have contracts with have recently gone out of business and therefore, currently, BUPA do not offer this service. I would be interested to hear from anyone else who's treatment has been affected similarly.
Sorry to hear that Bassa. Yes the Rutherford are insolvent and the only two U.K. NHS centres don’t have the capacity. Has your consultant told you that IMRT is likely to be just as effective?
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
My oncologist used to deliver proton at one of the Rutherfords. He’s very keen on it naturally and says yes it’s better but nevertheless his IMRT patients ( like me) recover very well anyway and cure rates are the same. Here he is at The Swallows annual conference last year talking about it if you have twenty minutes to spare https://youtu.be/3ynP5AG-urY
it starts at 2hrs 10 minutes
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
