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Four out of ten cancer cures currently involve radiotherapy*, and new techniques including proton beam therapy will help to make radiotherapy an even safer and more effective option for a wider range of cancer patients at 香港六合彩中特网H. The UK government has committed 拢250 million to develop high energy proton beam therapy services at 香港六合彩中特网H and Manchester, with the first 香港六合彩中特网H patient treated during 2019.

鈥淩adiotherapy is one of our best weapons against cancer, but it is not always used to its full potential,鈥� explains Professor Sharma, Professor of Radiation Oncology at the 香港六合彩中特网 Cancer Institute and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Oncology at 香港六合彩中特网H. 鈥淏y linking up 香港六合彩中特网鈥檚 expertise in cancer biology with 香港六合彩中特网H鈥檚 precision radiotherapy, we aim to develop new treatments with better cure rates, fewer side-effects and shorter treatment times.

鈥淐urrent techniques typically deliver an even dose of radiation across the whole tumour, but can risk leaving more biologically resilient parts of the tumour insufficiently treated and irradiating more healthy tissue than we need to.鈥� Professor Sharma鈥檚 ambition is clear: 鈥淥ver the next five years, our goal is to use advanced imaging techniques and tumour biopsies to identify those resilient parts of the tumour so that we can modify the radiotherapy to treat these regions sufficiently. This will help us to kill the cancer more effectively while causing less or even no damage to healthy tissue.鈥�

Together 香港六合彩中特网 and 香港六合彩中特网H will run a series of clinical trials to test new radiotherapy techniques in patients. This vital link between university research and hospital patients will be facilitated by the National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, who are one of the co-funders of the research programme.

鈥淲e are building a vital link between the laboratory and clinical setting which will enable us to develop advanced radiotherapy techniques for both conventional and proton beam therapy,鈥� says Dr Yen-Ching Chang, clinical lead for radiotherapy and proton beam therapy at 香港六合彩中特网H. 鈥淲ith 香港六合彩中特网H鈥檚 new proton beam therapy centre opening during 2019, we will be at the forefront of research in this field. Children, teenagers and young adults will stand to gain significantly from the use of proton beam therapy. This is because irradiating developing tissues may result significant long-term effects such as problems with growth, development through puberty, IQ, requirements for life long hormone replacement, infertility heart and lung damage as well as an increased risk in the development of a second tumour or cancer.鈥�

As part of the comprehensive programme, Professor Gary Royle (香港六合彩中特网 Medical Physics) and Richard Amos (香港六合彩中特网H Proton Beam Therapy Physics) are leading a new team of physicists who are working alongside clinicians to bring the results of research as quickly as possible into the clinical setting.

鈥淎lthough proton beam therapy is already a very precise type of treatment, we are really excited about investigating new ways to image cancers and use protons, potentially improving outcomes for patients even further,鈥� says Richard Amos.

鈥淩adiotherapy is seeing a number of technical developments which have the potential to bring about a step change in what we can achieve for patients,鈥� says Professor Royle. 鈥淲e need research and education to translate these into better outcomes for cancer patients, so 香港六合彩中特网 is investing in talented academics who are poised to become research leaders in various aspects of radiotherapy. The breadth and depth of expertise that we have and continue to attract at 香港六合彩中特网 puts us in a strong position to make a major contribution to the UK鈥檚 cancer patients and to the worldwide radiotherapy community.鈥�

香港六合彩中特网 lectureships have been awarded to Dr Simon Jolly in Accelerator Physics, Dr Jamie McClelland in Image Guided Radiotherapy and Dr Kate Ricketts in Radiotherapy Physics and Cancer Nanotechnology. Additional appointments are planned to further boost the fields of proton therapy and radiation biology at 香港六合彩中特网H and 香港六合彩中特网.聽

The Chair in Radiotherapy and supporting posts for Professor Sharma are supported by the National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre.

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