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Consultant Oncologist,Teresa
Guerrero Urbano has got the funds she
needs and prostate cancer patients throughout our Region will be the
winners. We had set ourselves the tough task of raising £100,000
so that the full benefits of the latest Linear Accelerator technology,
currently being installed at St Luke’s Cancer Centre, could be
utilised for prostate cancer patients.The Royal Surrey Hospital is at
the forefront of radiotherapy technology with a well established linear
accelerator programme. £7 million is currently being spent upgrading
machines in St Luke’s Cancer Centre which are capable of utilising
the latest intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and the even more
advanced image guided radiotherapy (IGRT). These techniques allow radiographers
to deliver more precisely shaped doses of radiation to kill tumour cells
with increasingly minimal damage to surrounding healthy tissue.
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