{"id":1326,"date":"2020-01-15T16:03:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T16:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2020-03-11T18:01:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T18:01:24","slug":"brachytherapy-advanced-gynaecological-applicator-used-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/2020\/01\/15\/brachytherapy-advanced-gynaecological-applicator-used-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Brachytherapy Advanced Gynaecological Applicator used for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The brachytherapy team today treated a cervical cancer case using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elekta.com\/brachytherapy\/applicators\/gynecological-brachytherapy-applicators\/venezia-gynecological-applicator\/\">Elekta Advanced Gynaecological Applicator<\/a> (Venezia).<\/p>\n<p>This applicator gives greater control over needle placement to allow consistent treatment of a much wider gross treatment volume than the more traditional tandem and ovoid type applicators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/venezia_applicator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1327\" src=\"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/venezia_applicator-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/venezia_applicator-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/venezia_applicator-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/venezia_applicator-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/venezia_applicator.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A total of 17 separate treatment channels were used for this case, guided at different angles by the applicator. A nice challenging one for the whole team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brachytherapy team today treated a cervical cancer case using the Elekta Advanced Gynaecological Applicator (Venezia). This applicator gives greater control over needle placement to allow consistent treatment of a much wider gross treatment volume than the more traditional tandem and ovoid type applicators. A total of 17 separate treatment channels were used for this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radiotherapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}