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I thought I was the next James Dyson but my vacuum technology was not disruptive enough! However, in radiotherapy we continue to disrupt current working practices with the latest innovations. What is Disruptive Technology? According to Investopedia it is this: “Disruptive technology is an innovation that significantly alters the way […]
I thought I was the next James Dyson but my ...
How wrong you were Jeremy! On the 22nd December 2019 in his final Sunday Times article of the year, Jeremy Clarkson ended by saying the following in relation to the red wall falling to the Conservatives the last election and these voters looking to Boris Johnson to turn back time: […]
Things we didn’t see coming! One of the ...
My “Exam-Shambles” meant my life fundamentally changed in 1980 The recent “Exam-Shambles” where A level exam results were doctored by an algorithm and then revised back to the marks estimated by the pupil’s teachers took me right back to 1980 when I became a student therapy radiographer. The fact that […]
Recession proof careers to Flash-RT, does radiotherapy really have a ...
News-Zone Focus Innovations in Radiotherapy Our leading monthly industry profile of the latest products and services in radiotherapy. This month we feature Mevion Medical Systems NEW MEVION PROTON COUCHTOP CIVCO’S UNIVERSAL COUCHTOP VALIDATED BY MEVION MEDICAL SYSTEMS The full line of Proton Series products are available on MEVION S250 Series […]
RadPro 365 Live News-Zone for July 2020
We have released our August blog a few days earlier than normal and I usually write my blog about stories and anecdotes from my past 40 years working in radiotherapy as both a clinical radiographer and in business, running radiotherapy companies while creating products and services. However, something critical is […]
Britain’s Covid19 Cancer Crisis explored. The August 2020 Blog from ...
The end of World War 2 in Europe and developments in Radiotherapy are intrinsically linked. We take a look at the earliest computer-based treatment planning systems, recent advances to AI and Machine Learning to plan precision radiotherapy while initially bow to the computer scientists who shortened World War 2 saving […]
The recent VE Day 75th anniversary was celebrated with bunting, ...
AN MP has called for a quicker rollout of new radiotherapy treatment to deal with the waiting list for cancer treatment caused by the coronavirus pandemic and to ‘stop lives being unnecessarily lost’. Tim Farron, MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, pressed ministers on the issue in the House of Commons […]
Tim Farron urges Government to ‘stop lives being unnecessarily lost’ ...
Our introduction In an era of lockdown and the Covid-19 pandemic, more and more people are taking to social media to make their point and have their voice or that of others, heard. This makes sense, as while people are social distancing, self-isolating, working from home or in quarantine there […]
The RadPro Q and A with Professor Karol Sikora
1 A look at the formative days of neutron and proton radiotherapy and many other fast things in my sphere including Fast-Forwarding to new radiotherapy techniques due to Covid-19. My hair was long and my shoes turquoise when I had my eventually successful interview to become a radiotherapy radiography student at […]