Cancer care gets personal

The future of cancer care will depend on the personalisation of treatment.This means tailoring treatment to each individual patient, rather than a 'one size fits all' approach.

With drugs the emphasis is on understanding the molecular switches that have gone wrong in an individual cancer patient.This allows the correct choice of drug combination to annihilate the cancer. With radiotherapy it’s all about precision. Getting it to exactly the right place, while avoiding collateral damage to surrounding tissue, is the key.

And the delivery of precise image modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and image guided radiotherapy (IGRT), both provided at CancerPartnersUK's cancer centres, is becoming a reality..for some. We now have fantastic diagnostic images from modern scanning techniques that allow us to see cancer with pinpoint accuracy. Converting this to a radiotherapy delivery plan that is equally sophisticated is the key to our future success to make sure we destroy the cancer with minimal damage to normal tissue.

Currently IMRT and IGRT are only available in certain centres to cancer patients in the UK. However, CancerPartnersUK has offered these types of treatments exclusively to all suitable patients right from the beginning. Personalised medicine is here to stay. In the end it is the only way we can make the best treatment available at an affordable price for everyone.

Find out more about our personalised approach to your treatment.

Karol Sikora
Medical Director