Sutton will receive a breakthrough radiotherapy machine that is a UK first.
Sutton’s Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) will receive the MR Linac radiotherapy machine, which will be the first machine of its kind in the UK that allows clinicians to constantly image tumours during radiotherapy.
Professor Uwe Oelfke said: “The MR Linac will allow us to constantly image the tumour during radiotherapy and allow us to adapt the treatment in real time.
“This would be a truly new practice and we would be entering into a new era of personalised radiotherapy.”
The MR Linac is being built at the Royal Marsden site, funded by a £10m grant from the Medical Research Council.
The bunker it will be housed in has enough space for 24 Routemaster buses, ICR said.
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