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Posted 19 Dec 2025 at 19:47

Anybody had this or know more about it. I have only seen it recently. https://visionrt.com/introduction-to-sgrt/

Barry
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Posted 19 Dec 2025 at 21:59

Barry, some of the Genisis cancer care centres have this technology, I think they used it on me a couple years ago.

Thanks Chris 

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User
Posted 20 Dec 2025 at 15:40
Interesting Chris,

Improvements in administering RT continue but take time to become widely adopted.

Barry
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Posted 22 Dec 2025 at 08:20

They were just starting to use this at The Norfolk and Norwich whilst I was having treatment Nov-Dec 2024. They were only using it for Brest cancer at that point with a view to expand in the future.

 

It looked pretty good, they scan you taking a kind of 3d scan of your body outline which they overlay on each subsequent visit. If you move out of the tolerances at all the RT is automatically paused so you can readjust and continue

User
Posted 22 Dec 2025 at 20:52
Old Barry, I think several of the main radiotherapy centres are moving to "next generation" machines which do initial imaging so that each individual dose (fraction) is adjusted for your exact position in the machine. In my case they did a low resolution CT scan that the machine could compare with the high resolution planning scan on which my treatment volume had been determined by the oncologist, and adjust the exact treatment that day to affect only the intended bit of my pelvis.

Basically they all mean that they can target the prostate (or prostate bed in my case) with much more accuracy and thus reduce the side effects from radiation affecting nearby tissues.

However these are expensive machines, so installation is only going to happen to replace older machines reaching the end of their lifespan.

User
Posted 23 Dec 2025 at 06:19
Yes, the same thing occurred to me about slow replacement due to cost. I don't know how widespread this is but I heard that as machines become old and outdated, they are sometimes sold off cheaply to countries with even less funds than the UK, thereby indirectly contributing to the cost of more advanced ones here. RT has greatly improved over the last 10 - 15 or so years, which is encouraging.
Barry
 
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