The departments second Varian Ethos machine has now been installed and is in use clinically.This second machine is live at the Satellite Radiotherapy Centre based at the East Surrey Hospital in Redhill. The machine will allow state of the art online adaptive treatments to take place at both our centres, offering the best patient care…
Read MoreThe entire medical physics team got together for a BBQ at the Royal Surrey Social Club.It was great to see so many people from all the departments together in one place!Lots of tasty burgers on offer and great to catch up with other colleagues!
Read MoreThe Royal Surrey has recently achieved two significant milestones in the treatment of patients using Online Adaptive Radiotherapy. Using the Varian Ethos treatment machine they have now treated over 100 patients using the adaptive technique. Alongside this they have accumulated over 2000 fractions using this advanced AI guided technology. The adaptive treatments involve generating a…
Read MoreThe team are currently nearling completion of the commissioning procedss for a new radiotherapy treatmetn machine. The machine is a Varian Halcyon. It also includes the new Varian Hypersight imager, and also Surface tracking from VisionRT. It is due to go clinical in April, and then it’ll be onto commissioning a second Ethos, also over…
Read MoreThe radiotherapy physics department was represented at the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) annual congresses held in Vienna in May 2023 by Gail Anastasi Distefano and Rachel Hollingdale. Gail showed a poster titled, ‘Investigating the use of Microsoft KinectV2 to monitor a patient’s breathing during Lung SBRT’ and Rachel gave a short oral…
Read MoreThe hospital has over 200 healthcare scientists working in different disciplines. To mark Healthcare Science Week (13-19 March 2023) a selection of the healthcare science team were interviewed. From Medical physics this included Daniel Sutcliffe from the radiotherapy department and Helen Le Sueur from the Scientific computing department. Read the full article on the…
Read MoreThe radiotherapy department at St Luke’s Cancer Centre, Guildford has reached a significant milestone for delivering cutting-edge treatments. The team have just delivered the 1000th fraction of online adaptive radiotherapy using the Varian Ethos machine. The state-of-the-art linac uses AI to generate patient contours and streamlines the workflow to allow a new plan to be…
Read MoreYou can now read the recently published work completed in the radiotherapy department on how they have implemented online adaptive radiotherapy for cervical cancer patients using the Varian Ethos system. A truly MDT approach was needed, and the entire team worked tirelessly to ensure a safe initial implementation and this service is now routinely offered…
Read MoreA new 3D printer has been installed in the radiotherapy department. Mark Long and Matt Bolt are leading the introduction of the new technology to help in treating disease close to the skin with radiotherapy. This innovative technology will help increase the accuracy and effectiveness of the radiotherapy treatments received by the patients. The department…
Read MoreThe December 2022 issue of radmagazine features a discussion centred around the Royal Surrey’s experience with the Varian Ethos system to delivery daily online adaptive radiotherapy. Authored by Rachel Hollingdale, Matthew Bolt and Charlotte Shelley, the full article is available here: https://www.radmagazine.com/scientific-article/online-cbct-based-adaptive-planning-and-treatment/
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