Cancer radiotherapy 2020: accounting for tumour deformation in real time to improve treatment outcome

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1042375

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Tumours in lung and prostate cancer change shape during radiotherapy treatment. This is not accounted for in current care, compromising the therapeutic efficacy. We will develop the first radiotherapy system that can adjust the radiation beam in real time to follow the changing tumour shape. We will assess the performance of the system and quantify the clinical benefit. It is expected that clinical implementation of this technique will improve the cure rates and decrease the treatment toxicity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2013

End Date: 01-01-2016

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $371,616.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Radiation Therapy

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cancer treatment | lung cancer | medical physics | radiation oncology | radiation therapy

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