{"id":1067,"date":"2019-03-07T16:46:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T16:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2019-03-07T16:53:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T16:53:42","slug":"duke-of-kent-opens-new-stokes-centre-of-urology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/2019\/03\/07\/duke-of-kent-opens-new-stokes-centre-of-urology\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke of Kent opens new Stokes Centre of Urology"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new state-of-the-art Stokes Centre of Urology was officially opened on 5th<\/sup> March 2019 by HRH The Duke of Kent.<\/p>\n

Full new article available here: https:\/\/www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/state-of-the-art-centre-receives-royal-seal-of-approval\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Figure 1: Unveiling of the plaque at the opening by (left to right) HRH The Duke of Kent, Louise Stead (RSCH chief executive) and Professor Stephen Langley (Consultant of Urology)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The brachytherapy physics team who are part of the wider radiotherapy physics team were in attendance to welcome the Duke and demonstrate the advanced real-time brachytherapy techniques on offer in the new centre.<\/p>\n

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Figure 2: Demonstration of brachytherapy seem implant technique by (left to right) Mel Cunningham (Head of brachytherapy physics), <\/strong>Dr Carla Perna (Consultant Oncologist), Professor Stephen Langley (Consultant Urologist), HRH The Duke of Kent, <\/strong>Dr Robert Laing (Consultant Oncologist), <\/strong>Dr Matt Bolt (physicist).<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The brachytherapy team is the largest centre in Europe for performing prostate seed implants and to date has performed over 4000 procedures and has provided training and guidance to a whole range of centres internationally. Routinely over 300 implants are performed per year with 7 implants completed on a single day.<\/p>\n

The brachytherapy equipment was setup to simulate the implant procedure which uses a combination of preloaded stranded peripheral seeds and loose central seed implanted using the Mick applicator. A multi-disciplinary team is involved in each implant including oncologists, urologists, physicists, as well as a full theatre team. More information on the technique can be found on http:\/\/www.4dbrachytherapy.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Figure 3: Setup for prostate brachytherapy implant on a training phantom. The stepper unit and ultrasound communicate with the treatment planning system to enable real-time adaptive planning to be performed resulting in an adaptable, efficient treatment method.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The new state-of-the-art Stokes Centre of Urology was officially opened on 5th March 2019 by HRH The Duke of Kent. Full new article available here: https:\/\/www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/state-of-the-art-centre-receives-royal-seal-of-approval\/ The brachytherapy physics team who are part of the wider radiotherapy physics team were in attendance to welcome the Duke and demonstrate the advanced real-time brachytherapy techniques on offer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}