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  • With Covid secure radiotherapy delivery now critical in the present corona-virus crisis and hypo-fractionation all the rage, why is the ultimate hypo-fractionated and adaptive treatment, Intra-Operative Radiotherapy or IORT sometimes seen historically in our sector as sorcery!

    12th January 2021

  • A blog on patient and staff safety during the COVID-19 crisis by Mike Moran, Chief Executive Officer, Rutherford Health

    22nd December 2020

  • Being a therapeutic radiography student was very much like riding a racehorse, when things go wrong you have to get back on again right away. It’s also sometimes counterintuitive but the harder you pull, the faster you go! I also take a brief look at equine and veterinary radiotherapy too!

    17th December 2020

  • The RadPro Christmas Twitter Q and A with Professor Karol Sikora – 10 months on!

    15th December 2020

  • I want to do something more with my life, but I don’t know what that something is

    1st December 2020

  • 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

    4th November 2020

  • Things we didn’t see coming! One of the problems with writing blogs and using social media is that developments in the future can come back to bite you!

    1st October 2020

  • Recession proof careers to Flash-RT, does radiotherapy really have a holy grail or should we be careful what we wish for?

    7th September 2020

  • Britain’s Covid19 Cancer Crisis explored. The August 2020 Blog from RadPro

    23rd July 2020

  • The recent VE Day 75th anniversary was celebrated with bunting, street parties and non-socially distanced Congas. At the end of the actual war in Europe the use of ticker tape was more popular. However, the use of paper computer program tape to mark this event would have been far more appropriate!

    3rd July 2020

  • The RadPro Q and A with Professor Karol Sikora

    8th June 2020

  • No sleep ‘till Hammersmith. From Fast Neutrons to Fast Eddie Clark, Hammersmith was the centre of my Universe in 1980!

    2nd June 2020

  • From tracking Cobalt to tracking criminals, a largely Cobalt blue radiotherapy journey from London in the early 80’s right through to 21st century Africa and beyond

    29th April 2020

  • Should the NHS purchase private radiotherapy provision for its patients to reduce the spread of Covid-19, release pressure on the NHS and save lives

    2nd April 2020

  • “There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.”- Mira Grant– however, we need to put Covid-19 into perspective and as radiotherapy professionals we are well positioned to do this.

    25th March 2020

  • “A mask tells us more than a face.” ― Oscar Wilde

    2nd March 2020

  • Is the decreasing rate of Dementia, found to be linked to lead exposure paradoxically a worrying health concern for ageing DCR therapy radiographers like me?

    3rd February 2020

  • MRI screening, prostate cancer and seed implants. A look at a potential national screening program through to personalised, permanent seed implant treatments.

    8th January 2020

  • It’s (not) a man’s world!

    18th December 2019

  • Death, Dying and DHA

    6th November 2019

  • These boots were made for walking…

    14th October 2019

  • Wimbledon Serves Up a New Business Opportunity!

    11th September 2019

  • From Lead Glass Windows to Real Time Motion Management in Radiotherapy

    9th August 2019

  • Why do we need a virtual radiotherapy exhibition and congress?

    9th July 2019

  • Creating the UK’s first mobile radiotherapy service

    17th June 2019

  • The role of a therapy radiographer in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    10th May 2019

  • Duncan Hynd Associates is born

    15th April 2019

  • People Buy People First!

    14th March 2019

  • February Blog – Is that a smell of burning wax, if so please call the London Fire Brigade!

    19th February 2019

  • The impact of Brexit on Radiotherapy

    6th February 2019

  • A “Radiographers life” in Radiotherapy… a monthly Blog by Duncan Hynd

    11th January 2019

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We partnered with comic-book legend Steve Englehart, author, & Mike Jaszewski, illustrator, to bring you Proton Man. The goal of the comic book is to help educate children and their families about proton therapy. Read the first edition: https://bit.ly/3ntnXiC #VarianCares

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#RaySearch announces the release of the first version of the treatment control system (TCS) #RayCommand and that the system received first market clearances in Europe on December 23, 2020.
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Northside Hospital Cancer Institute recently completed a reload of the cobalt-60 within its Leksell Gamma Knife Icon SRS unit. Northside's #GammaKnife Program has treated 800+ patients since it launched in 2015. @Elekta #radiosurgery #radonc

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#RaySearch announces the release of the first version of the treatment control system (TCS) #RayCommand and that the system received first market clearances in Europe on December 23, 2020.
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Great photo of the amazing @UHSFT Theatre T HPB team - nurses Arlene, Luther and Sheena modelling their personalised PLANETS scrub hats and getting the IORT machine warmed up ready for use. @IntraOp_Medical #intraoperativeradiotherapy #IORT #HPBteam #theatrenurses

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I am going to make a list of doctors offering video consultations.
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Insightful publication from @pippajanelewis @AggarwalOnc @DrMakwani @LaurenceECourt & colleagues.

An Assessment of Cloud-Based Technology for #Radiotherapy Planning & Peer Review in Ghana, Tanzania & Botswana.

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Outstanding work by ICP Ajay Aggarwal and colleagues looking at feasibility of cloud based technologies in SSA. Important critique of assumption that technology is a 'quick fix'. https://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/GO.20.00188 @AORTIC_AFRICA @cspramesh

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Insightful publication from @pippajanelewis @AggarwalOnc @DrMakwani @LaurenceECourt & colleagues.

An Assessment of Cloud-Based Technology for #Radiotherapy Planning & Peer Review in Ghana, Tanzania & Botswana.

➡️ http://ascopubs.org/doi/suppl/10.1200/GO.20.00188

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#RadOnc #GlobalOncology https://twitter.com/SullivanProf/status/1349297346258100225

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Outstanding work by ICP Ajay Aggarwal and colleagues looking at feasibility of cloud based technologies in SSA. Important critique of assumption that technology is a 'quick fix'. https://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/GO.20.00188 @AORTIC_AFRICA @cspramesh

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