A new £7m specialist radiotherapy centre will be built at a Dorset hospital. Based at the Dorset County Hospital, it will provide radiotherapy treatment to cancer patients in West Dorset who have previously had to travel to Poole. BBC, Dorset Echo
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Brave Sam: I’m amazed at Hitchin’s generosity in helping my cancer fight
Sam Williams needs revolutionary proton beam therapy treatment which is not available in this country. She is currently is the Czech Republic receiving her first doses of the life-changing laser remedy to remove a golf ball-sized tumour lodged in her brain behind her eyes. The Comet
New Torbay Hospital cancer unit marks a milestone
A special topping-out ceremony took place at Torbay Hospital today to mark a significant construction milestone in the £8million project to provide improved cancer services. The project will deliver two new high tech radiotherapy machines. Torquay Herald
£90,000 needed to send Falmouth toddler to America for cancer treatment
The parents of little Theo Ward, who has a tumour behind his eye, are preparing for a trip to America for potentially life-saving treatment. Lisa and James are still waiting to learn whether the NHS will fund the proton beam treatment, so in the meantime they are determined to raise the £90,000 needed in case… Read more »
Specialist radiotherapy overhaul could result in decommissioning
An overhaul of specialist radiotherapy services could result in a number of existing providers being decommissioned, a consultation paper published by NHS England suggests. Health Service Journal
Youngster helps mark start of work on £125m cancer treatment centre
A nine-year-old girl was a special guest at an event to mark the start of work on a high-tech cancer treatment centre. Lucy Thomas had been invited by The Christie NHS Foundation Trust to be part of the ground-breaking ceremony for the UK’s first NHS high energy proton beam therapy centre. Bury Times
UK hospital to offer proton beam therapy
The first hospital in the UK to offer proton beam therapy to fight cancer is expected to open within two years. The private cancer hospital, costing £150 million, is expected to begin treating patients in 2017. The hospital will be built on the site of the historic grade II listed Royal masonic Hospital in Hammersmith… Read more »
Work starts on £125m proton beam centre
Cancer patients will soon be able to get revolutionary proton beam therapy as work starts at the UK’s first specialist centre at The Christie in Manchester. A ground-breaking ceremony at hospital this week marked the start of construction of the £125 million centre, which should open in 2018. Oldham Chronicle
Proton Partners International brings Proton Beam Therapy to England
Proton Partners International Limited will today unveil the site of the first Proton Beam Therapy cancer treatment centre to be built in England. The centre will be the second to be built by Proton Partners International in the UK. It will be situated on the Earth Balance wellness suite in Bomarsund, Northumberland, and will operational… Read more »
Family’s desperate appeal to fund 22-year-old’s life-changing cancer treatment
Twenty-two-year-old Sam Williams requires revolutionary proton beam therapy treatment in Prague in the next two weeks. She only received the diagnosis about her health in May, when doctors told her that she had undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma in her sinuses and lymph nodes. The Comet
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