Preston cancer patients benefitting from £1.3m charity funded guiding light system

Breast cancer patient 68-year-old Anita Brown has become Rosemere Cancer Centre’s first patient to finish a course of radiotherapy treatment using the new £1.3 million SGRT - Surface Guided Radiotherapy - guiding light mapping system

First patient Anita with team members from Rosemere Cancer Centre’s Radiotherapy Department – Louise Johnson, Saba Hameed and Beth Taylor

The equipment needed to make SGRT possible has been installed in all the cancer centre’s six radiotherapy treatment rooms and its CT scanner room. “The plan is start with a small number of our breast cancer patients and then to roll it out to all other radiotherapy patients over the coming months.

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