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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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