We have three Clinical Scientist vacancies, working within the Radiotherapy team at St Luke’s Cancer Centre in Guildford, Surrey: Band 7 Registered Clinical Scientist x 2: NHS jobs ref C9384-AGB-EMF12472 Band 8A Senior Clinical Scientist: NHS jobs ref C9384-AGB-EMF12474 The successful candidates will provide scientific support across external beam treatment planning, dosimetry/QA, and brachytherapy, with…
Read MoreThis year was the first time the radiotherapy department had hosted a summer placement student organised through the South East Physics network (SEPNet). More information can be found about the placements here: https://www.sepnet.ac.uk/for-students/sepnet-summer-placement-scheme-information-students/ The placement was for 8 weeks and undertaken by Katie Ryan who had recently graduated from Southampton University with a BSc in Physics…
Read MoreIn a UK first the Royal Surrey have treated their 5000th patient using radioactive prostate seeds in May 2022. For each patient the radiotherapy physics team has been involved in the treatment ED viagra online planning as well as the handling and calibration of the radioactive sources since 1999. Over the years the team have…
Read MoreSome of the scientists from across the Medical Physics department recently met up for a social jog at Guildford Parkrun. This was of course followed by cake! Hopefully this will become a more regular event, keeping the body healthy and the mind clear with some outdoor exercise.
Read MoreThe departments work on Automated Treatment Planning for Bladder cancer using the Ethos TPS was recently presented at the annual BIR Radiotherapy and Oncology Conference. The conference was fully online and attended by a wide range of delegates and covered a range of hot topics including MR Guided radiotherapy, AI and machine learning, Adaptive therapy…
Read MoreThe Radiotherapy department have treated their first patient using online-adaptive radiotherapy. This was the result of a large multidisciplinary team effort. This improves upon traditional radiotherapy by generating a new treatment plan for each day of the treatment, allowing the internal anatomy to be treated no matter if it has moved since the first patient…
Read MoreA full review of the quality control (QC) procedures for the Radiotherapy department’s six TrueBeam linear accelerators was completed in October 2020 by the Dosimetry team. QC procedures and schedules were redesigned to comply with recently published national guidance and the existing modular QC structure was further streamlined to accommodate the new and updated tests.…
Read MoreThe radiotherapy department have treated their first patient using the newly installed Varian ETHOS treatment machine. The machine is it the forefront of technology and will allow treatments to be adapted on a daily basis with the aim of improving the patient experience while also delivering significantly enhanced treatments. For more details visit the write…
Read MoreThe Radiotherapy services team were excited to take delivery of a groundbreaking (literally) radiotherapy machine last weekend – the first of its type in the UK. The Varian ‘ETHOS’ machine uses artificial intelligence to enhance cancer treatment by adapting treatments on a daily basis to optimize the delivery of radiotherapy. The machine will be up…
Read MoreThe European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology held a physics workshop on Quantitative Imaging within Radiotherapy and this was attended by Rob Julian from the Royal Surrey’s radiotherapy physics department. There were wide ranging discussions on the day and a summary of the outcomes has recently been published in The Green Journal and is Open Access making…
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