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Times
20-05-2025
- Health
- Times
Test can diagnose brain tumours in just two hours
British scientists have developed a 'revolutionary' genetic test which cuts the time it takes to diagnose brain tumours from eight weeks to two hours. Thousands of patients each year are set to benefit from the £450 test, which rapidly 'combines separate tests into one' to classify the type of tumour and provide an accurate prognosis on the same day patients have surgery. The method was developed by scientists at the University of Nottingham along with doctors at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. About 12,000 patients are diagnosed with brain tumours in the UK annually. It is one of the deadliest types of cancers, with many dying within one year. Patients with brain cancer undergo surgery to get a sample of the tumour, which is
BBC News
09-05-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Oxford hospital uses UK-first tech used for brain tumour patients
Hundreds of brain tumour patients will become the UK's first to benefit from a new way of carrying out MRI scans to plan specialist radiotherapy technology will lead to quicker MRI scans and more precise and targeted radiotherapy, Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust Hospitals Charity has funded the new equipment, which cost £115,000, at the Churchill Best, from Aylesbury, said he was "very honoured and excited" to be the first patient in the country to receive the new treatment. "From everything I've heard it's a real step forward, so it's absolutely marvellous," the 67-year-old grandfather of five became the first patient to have his scans done with the new technology ahead of his radiotherapy treatment for a non-cancerous tumour in April."I was initially very nervous when I learned I needed radiotherapy, it's a big scary word, but the team at the Churchill have been great," he said. The new equipment is a flexible electromagnetic coil, which ensures patients' heads can be kept in the same place during both CT and MRI the two images created by CT and MRI scans were different due to the positions of the head, and had to be manually overlaid to provide a single image to plan use of the new coil, the images can now be lined up without the need for manual enables more precise treatment and saves valuable time for staff and would benefit about 250 patients a year, OUH Watson, a consultant therapeutic radiographer at OUH, said the new piece of equipment would enable "pinpoint accuracy" during radiotherapy."The benefits are multiple – most significantly, the quality and precision of the images is greater, because they align better and the new coil fits more snugly to the face," she added. You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
