The Rutherford Cancer Centre South Wales was the first clinic in the UK to provide high energy proton therapy and successfully treated the first non-NHS patient with high energy proton therapy in the UK in April of last year. This milestone is due to be followed by the treatment of the first adult patient to be commissioned by NHS Wales shortly.
Dr Karol Sikora, Chief Medical Officer of the Rutherford Cancer Centres welcomed the news: “It is encouraging to see The Christie begin to offer proton beam therapy services and we wish them every success. The combined capacity of private and public providers of this innovative form of treatment will help revolutionise the provision of cancer care in this country and deliver enhanced patient outcomes.”
