5 things you need to know for November 2021
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The movie ‘Flashdance’ was a romantic, dance-based drama famous for its title track, ‘What A Feeling’ but with companies and research groups creating their own ‘song and dance’ right now about the rapid advances in Flash RT, what is your feeling on its likely impact on clinical radiotherapy and when? […]
The movie ‘Flashdance’ was a romantic, dance-based drama famous for ...
3 things you need to know for October 2021
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2 Where Were You This Time A Year Ago? Last year, I was studying a foundation course in Health Sciences at our local University in Middlesbrough. I’m grateful for this because it allowed me to grow and develop and acclimate to student life, and all while still being at home during […]
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I must admit that I was slightly startled and so were many others by two of ESTRO’s ‘landmark’ debates held during the congress this summer. These are the two motion items of note: ‘This house believes that in the next 5 years the current RTT education curriculum will be obsolete’ […]
Has the coronavirus pandemic radicalised ESTRO and are they suffering ...
4 things you need to know for September 2021
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Is this an opportunity or a threat to our role and will advances in AI allow us to reach the holy grail of therapeutic radiographer led Magnetic Resonance guided Radiotherapy? I must admit that when I saw this headline above on the internet and another one announcing ‘Radiographers deliver on-line […]
Therapeutic radiographers now deliver MR-Linac treatments without clinical oncologist present
things you need to know for August 2021 Our curated news-feed from partners and the media featuring: Innovations in AI, the future of Proton Beam Therapy, the RadPro virtual Expo update and skin cancer treatment in the US. Improving innovation in radiotherapy to tackle cancer backlog Dr Anna Britten is […]
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I was watching the BBC Panorama edition that aired on the May 26th 2021 called: Are you scared yet, Human? ‘As artificial intelligence changes our world, it has sparked a new arms race between China and the US. Experts warn that without urgent regulation, we could lose control’. It focused […]
Will facial recognition technology ultimately allow fully autonomous radiotherapy delivery, ...
things you need to know for July 2021 Our curated news-feed from partners and the media featuring: The world’s smallest Proton Therapy accelerator, Upright Radiotherapy Delivery Systems, Radiotherapy in China, the global adoption of the Unity MR Linac and Flash RT clinical trials. Mercy St. Louis Begins Installation of […]
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1 What is a brand? “The term brand refers to a business and marketing concept that helps people identify a particular company, product, service or individual. Brands are intangible, which means you can’t actually touch or see them. As such, they help shape people’s perceptions of companies, their products, services or […]
How do we solve Radiotherapy’s PR problem, do we urgently ...
4 things you need to know for June 2021
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Action Radiotherapy is the UK’s only charity dedicated to improving radiotherapy treatment. The charity believes that every cancer patient in the UK should have access to the best radiotherapy treatment available.
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2 Being a radiotherapy ‘dinosaur’ myself in relative terms these days it was alarming to find out while watching TV the other day that ‘Gypsum’ was the final nail in the dinosaur’s coffin when Plaster of Paris was a regular part of my working day as a therapeutic radiographer! Gypsum is […]
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5 things you need to know for May 2021
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1 A blog by Elizabeth Kelly, a student therapeutic radiographer at Sheffield Hallam University . My Quarter Life Crisis? How early is too early for a midlife crisis? 2019 had to have been the hardest year I’d ever had. I’d been working in community pharmacy for a number of years after […]
My Quarter Life Crisis?
The recently aired and hugely successful, award winning but emotionally challenging Channel 4 series ‘It’s A Sin’ focused on the lives of some members of the LGBT community living through the 1980’s AIDS epidemic. While watching the crisis developing at high-speed on TV it led me back to my time […]
It’s A Sin. The new television series by Russell T ...
4 things you need to know for April 2021
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With the ICR announcing that ‘Advanced radiotherapy must play central role’ in clearing Covid’s cancer backlog’ and that only 8% of people surveyed consider radiotherapy cutting edge with others ‘sceptical’, what should we do right now to solve radiotherapy’s PR problem? Read more: https://www.icr.ac.uk/news-archive/advanced-radiotherapy-must-play-central-role-in-clearing-covid-s-cancer-backlog Aside from a new policy of […]