{"id":1650,"date":"2023-02-03T12:45:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2023-02-03T12:45:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:45:29","slug":"perfectly-formed-second-skin-will-improve-radiation-treatment-for-cancer-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/2023\/02\/03\/perfectly-formed-second-skin-will-improve-radiation-treatment-for-cancer-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfectly formed \u2018second skin\u2019 will improve radiation treatment for cancer patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new 3D printer has been installed in the radiotherapy department.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/staff-members\/mark-long\/\">Mark Long<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/staff-members\/matthew-bolt\/\">Matt Bolt<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>The department will be using the bespoke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adaptiiv.com\/\">Adaptiiv software<\/a> to develop the custom printed applicators for each patient.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full write-up on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/news\/perfectly-formed-second-skin-will-improve-radiation-treatment-for-cancer-patients-8480\">Royal Surrey website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press-release","category-radiotherapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","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=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medphys.royalsurrey.nhs.uk\/department\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}