Treatment - PLANETS Charity

Just Diagnosed

Once you have been diagnosed your doctor may ask for you to have further tests in order to determine what type of treatment will be best for you.

Nuclear

Nuclear medicine involves using radioactive materials (or tracers) to diagnose and treat a wide variety of disorders.

Surgery

Surgery is used to remove a cancer. Understand what happens and how to prepare and recover.

Recommended Second Opinions

In order for a second opinion to give a good opinion they will need a referral letter and details of your treatments.

Radiotherapy

Since x-rays were discovered more than 100 years ago, radiation has been used more and more in medicine, both to help with the diagnosis of illness and as a treatment for it.

Radiological

The principles of radiology are to use different types of scans to identify and diagnose problems inside the human body that cannot be seen or felt by external examination.

IORT

Electron beam intra-operative radiation therapy is a highly specialised type of radiotherapy that is administered during an operation while you are still asleep under anaesthetic.

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is the name given to treatments that use drugs to either kill cancer cells or control their rate of growth.

Interventional Oncology Treatments

Interventional oncology is a subspecialty field of interventional radiology that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Dietary Advice

Diet is something that you can take control of to maximise your treatment outcomes and improve your quality of day to day living.

How is the money raised spent?

What are the benefits of IORT with a Mobetron Radiotherapy Cancer Treatment??

PLANETS completes £1 million fundraising campaign to purchase pioneering radiotherapy machine

PLANETS has thanked its supporters after completing a £1 million fundraising campaign and making the final payment for a pioneering radiotherapy machine. PLANETS Cancer Charity has been fundraising for the past six years to fully purchase Mobetron, a revolutionary mobile device which delivers radiotherapy during surgery – known as intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT). When the charity installed it at University Hospital …

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