Proton beam therapy is an advanced form of external radiotherapy that uses high-energy proton beams instead of photon x-ray beams or electrons. Carefully measured doses of protons are delivered to the precise area needing treatment, using the latest IBA ProteusONE technology. This ensures that the delivery of proton beam therapy is highly accurate and prevents the risk of radiation reaching surrounding healthy tissue.
Radiotherapy is used to kill and destroy cancer cells. It utilises radiation in the form of high-energy x-rays, known as photons, to kill and damage the cancerous cells and prevent their growth and reproduction. It can be used as a non-surgical option to treat cancer, and it can also be used to shrink a tumour or in combination with other treatments.
The Rutherford Cancer Centres and Elekta are bringing the next generation of personalised adaptive radiotherapy technology to oncology centres across the UK, with the new MR-linac Elekta Unity now available at the Rutherford Cancer Centre North West in Liverpool.
This Cookie Policy was updated on 22nd August 2021.
The Rutherford Cancer Centres operating under Rutherford Cancer Care Limited understands the importance of protecting and respecting your online privacy. This is the Cookie Notice for Rutherford Cancer Care Limited, accessible from www.therutherford.com, and ensures that we are complying with the relevant data protection laws, including the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations.
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The table below provides an overview of the cookies currently used on this website, including third party.
Cookie | Domain | Type | Duration | Description |
_fbp | .therutherford.com | Advertisement | 3 months | This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website. |
_ga | .therutherford.com | Analytics | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
_gid | .therutherford.com | Analytics | 1 day | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. |
_gcl_au | .therutherford.com | Analytics | 3 months | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to understand user interaction with the website. |
_hjFirstSeen | .therutherford.com | Analytics | 30 minutes | This is set by Hotjar to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. |
CookieControl | .therutherford.com | Necessary | 3 months | This cookie is used to record If a user has accepted the cookie consent when the website first loads. |
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_hjid | .therutherford.com | Analytics | 1 year | This cookie is set by Hotjar. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
fpestid | .therutherford.com | Analytics | 1 year | No description |
oribi_user_guid | .therutherford.com | Analytics | 1 year | No description |
oribi_session | .therutherford.com | Analytics | 2 hours | No description |
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | .therutherford.com | Analytics | 30 minutes | No description |
_gat | .therutherford.com | Performance | 1 minute | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. |
__adal_ca | .therutherford.com | Analytics | Persistent | This cookie is used by Adalyser to track our TV campaign. Stores which advertising campaign drove a user to visit. |
__adal_cw | .therutherford.com | Analytics | Persistent | This cookie is used by Adalyser to track our TV campaign. Tie back conversion events to earlier visits |
__adal_id | .therutherford.com | Analytics | Persistent | This cookie is used by Adalyser to track our TV campaign. Uniquely identifies a device. |
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample | .therutherford.com | Analytics | 2 minutes | No description |
_hjIncludedInSessionSample | .therutherford.com | Analytics | 2 minutes | No description |
lang | .ads.linkedin.com | Functional | session | This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website. |
test_cookie | .doubleclick.net | Advertisement | 15 minutes | This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. |
fr | .facebook.com | Advertisement | 3 months | The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisements to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behaviour of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. |
_GRECAPTCHA | .google.com | Necessary | 5 months 27 days | This cookie is set by Google. In addition to certain standard Google cookies, reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. |
bcookie | .linkedin.com | Functional | 2 years | This cookie is set by linkedIn. The purpose of the cookie is to enable LinkedIn functionalities on the page. |
lidc | .linkedin.com | Functional | 1 day | This cookie is set by LinkedIn and used for routing. |
lang | .linkedin.com | Functional | session | This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website. |
UserMatchHistory | .linkedin.com | Marketing | 1 month | Linkedin - Used to track visitors on multiple websites, to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. |
AnalyticsSyncHistory | .linkedin.com | Analytics | 1 month | No description |
__stid | .sharethis.com | Analytics | 1 year | The cookie is set by ShareThis. The cookie is used for site analytics to determine the pages visited, the amount of time spent, etc. |
__stidv | .sharethis.com | Functional | 1 year | This cookie is used by ShareThis. This cookie is used for sharing the content from the website to social networks. |
bscookie | .www.linkedin.com | Advertisement | 2 years | This cookie is a browser ID cookie set by Linked share Buttons and ad tags. |
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We hope the above information has clarified what cookies we use and how we protect your data. If you would like more information, please contact us by emailing: [email protected]
You can also visit aboutcookies.org for further information relating to the use of cookies.
This Cookie Notice was updated on 22nd August 2021.
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