


Can You Travel On Holiday During Radiotherapy Treatment?
Treatment for cancer at a radiotherapy centre can be a long-term process involving a lot of ancillary elements beyond the specific doses of radiation used and any adjunctive primary treatments.
Your multidisciplinary team will include…

New Test Boosts Early Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Prospects
Prostate cancer is one of the most prominent gender-specific cancers, but, in common with other forms of cancer, early diagnosis can make a major difference to the prognosis for patients.
Not only does it make the chances of survival greater,…

Why Does Nutrition Matter During Radiotherapy Treatment?
Alongside exercise and mental health, nutrition is a key component of a healthy lifestyle, and during a course of radiotherapy treatment, diet will be a key consideration of the multidisciplinary team.
Nutrition is key to ensuring that the…

Primary And Secondary Brain Tumours: A Simple Guide
Anyone suffering from brain tumours, be they benign or malignant, will seek the best medical care possible to provide relief from symptoms or even a solution that fully resolves the issue. However, the care that is needed depends on a range…

What Are The Primary Signs And Symptoms Of A Brain Tumour?
This March marks the 21st anniversary of Brain Tumour Awareness Month, and every radiotherapy centre plays a part in ensuring that as many brain tumours are treated as possible, with advanced technology and diagnostics assisting with this aim.
Initially…

What Can You Do To Feel Better During Cancer Treatment?
Cancer treatment is a process with many steps before, during and after visiting the radiotherapy centre, and specialist cancer doctors and nurses will take a holistic, conscientious approach during the entire duration of the journey.
Every…

Amethyst Radiotherapy On The Die Presse Front Page
The team here at Amethyst Radiotherapy have been featured on the website of Austrian broadsheet newspaper Die Presse, showcasing the leading private radiotherapy clinic, based in Vienna, which provides a wide range of different radiation oncology…

5 Important Facts About Trigeminal Neuralgia Treatment
There are certain conditions which can be effectively managed and treated once their causes are understood, and trigeminal neuralgia is a particularly illustrative example of this.
Once it has been diagnosed and a patient has been referred…

What Were The Early Treatments That Inspired Radiotherapy?
Anyone who is prescribed a course of radiotherapy treatments from a specialist centre can feel comforted that they are receiving a proven treatment that is over a century old and is still evolving and improving in its efficacy.
From the…

How Prostate Cancer Treatment Has Advanced In Recent Years
Prostate cancer is a disease that kills millions of men every year. It is one of the most common forms of cancer and men will increasingly become vulnerable to it after the age of 50. Those who are overweight, have a family history of the disease…

Why Does Stereotactic Radiosurgery Primarily Treat The Brain?
If someone is prescribed a treatment plan that consists of stereotactic radiosurgery, they can enter the radiotherapy centre confident that they are being treated by one of the most effective, accurate and oldest radiosurgical treatments available.
The…

Who Was The First Person To Be Treated With The Gamma Knife?
Precision is key when it comes to any treatment related to the brain, and part of the reason why people are often prescribed a trip to a radiotherapy centre for stereotactic radiosurgery is precisely because of this precision.
Lars Leksell…

Can Personalised Radiotherapy Defeat Bladder Cancer?
Radiotherapy has been in use since around the turn of the 20th century, making it a very well-established area of medicine. Nevertheless, like any other form of medicine, nothing has stood still; as well as establishing more kinds of cancer…

Who Accidentally Discovered Radiotherapy’s Therapeutic Use?
For over a century, people have gone to radiotherapy centres with the knowledge that they can receive some of the best treatment possible to help remove growths and lesions, treat nerve conditions with the accuracy of a scalpel and provide…

Exploring the Delayed Use of Radiotherapy in Treating Cancer
One of the most comforting aspects of entering a radiotherapy centre is that whilst many of the therapies and technologies being used are new, the underlying concept behind the treatment has been established for over a century.
This means…

Understanding How Radiotherapy After Surgery Helps Prevent Cancer Recurrence
There are so many different forms of cancer, each of which relies on a treatment plan that can vary significantly from one diagnosis to another.
In some cases, a visit to a radiotherapy centre will be enough to destroy certain types of early-stage…

What Conditions Were First Treated with Radiotherapy? A Historical Look
A referral to a radiotherapy centre for treatment means that a person is going to receive non-intrusive, effective and versatile treatment for a wide variety of conditions.
Brain tumours, as well as certain types of lesions and growths in…

The Fall Of Radioactive Therapy And Rise Of Radiotherapy
Radiotherapy is one of three front-line treatments used in the treatment of lesions, tumours and malignant cancers, and the earlier a cancer diagnosis is acquired, the more likely it is that visiting a radiotherapy centre is the primary, if…

SBRT bei NSCLC (Dr Kuczer – 2024)
Radiation Oncology specialist, Dr. Kuczer
3D-CRT vs. SBRT
Respiratory Motion Management
Conventional (ITV-based)
– Contour and treat full tumor ROM
Accelerator beam gating
– Patient breathes normally;…

How Radiotherapy Can Be Used In Combination With Drugs
Our radiotherapy centre can now treat a very wide array of conditions. The technology of radiotherapy has been developed over the last 120 years to offer hope and extend life to sufferers of various forms of cancer.
This has become more adroit…

How Eating The Right Sort Of Foods Aids Radiotherapy
Facing a battle against cancer can be one of the most daunting prospects anyone can be confronted with. It is not just the reality of our mortality - since we will all die eventually - but the uncertainty of outcome, both for you and your loved…

Could ‘Mini CERN’ Provide The Next Radiotherapy Innovation?
Ever since the possibilities of radiotherapy were first discovered in the 1890s and put into practice in the 1900s, the potential of this technology to treat cancer has been a keen subject of intensive research around the world.
Indeed, if…

The Motivation That Made Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Possible
People entering the radiotherapy centre today for precise treatment for brain lesions and tumours know that the treatment they are set to receive involves no incisions, leaves only the marks of the metal guide frame and will generally give them…

What Your Recovery From Gamma Knife Surgery Involves
Major treatment for any kind of ailment, especially cancer, can be quite gruelling. But with a gamma knife, it can be much less so than some imagine.
If you have a tumour that requires precise attention, sometimes the solution your oncologist…
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