With prostate cancer, there are two forms of radiotherapy we can give - either, what we call external beam radiotherapy, where we shine the radiotherapy from outside into the body from different...
Every patient now who's diagnosed with any cancer should be discussed in one of these MDTs, multi disciplinary team meetings so that there is input or the option of input from all modalities,...

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There are different ways of treating tumours with radiotherapy. The standard way really in the UK, Europe and the USA involves what we call a two-gray fraction, a two unit treatment of radiotherapy...
Now we've already seen one type of radiotherapy, and we can refer to that as Teletherapy, with a source of radiation that's placed a long distance from the tumour or from the patient,...
Hello, I'm Kim Hare, I'm the moulding technician in the Berkshire Cancer Centre in Reading, and I'd like to show you around the mould room. We use two types of impression...
I'm Dr. Waddah Al-Refaie, I serve as the chief of surgical oncology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, I also serve as the surgeon in chief for the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer...
Hello, I am a radiation oncologist. When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, the treatment options include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or some combination of these. Breast radiation is...
TomoTherapy is a form of image-guided Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy that integrates a CT Scan in the treatment to better target tumors and reduce radiation to healthy tissue. The scan allows...
RapidArc Radiotherapy delivers high doses of radiation directly to the tumor while sparing the healthy tissues of the surrounding area. RapidArc rotates 360 degrees around the patient, enabling very...

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Prostate cancer is expected to be diagnosed in over 900,000 men worldwide this year along. In the United States, there will be more than 200,000 new diagnoses. The majority of patients over 90% will...