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Radiotherapy
This page was last updated: November 30th, 2022
Our modern radiotherapy department is based in the Sunrise Centre at the Royal Cornwall Hospital. We see around 2,000 new patients each year and deliver more than 1,800 courses of radiotherapy. We don’t have a waiting list so clinics are often extremely busy.
We have some of the latest state-of-the-art equipment to make sure treatments are as quick and pain-free as possible. This includes two TrueBeam linear accelerators for treatments such as image guided radiotherapy and intensity modulated radiotherapy. We also have a dedicated CT scanner for the planning of radiotherapy.
Our team is made up of an experienced team of medical oncologists, clinical oncologists, physicists, dosimetrists, engineers, radiographers, assistant practitioners, radiotherapy assistants and nursing staff, all supported by a team of clerical and secretarial staff.
Visiting the Sunrise Centre
The Sunrise Centre is on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site in Treliske, in Truro. Find out more about visiting the Royal Cornwall Hospital.
We run clinics from 9am until 5pm and radiotherapy from 8am to 5pm and provide an on call service at the weekends and bank holidays.
Information for patients
General information for all patients:
Paediatric patients
Breast patients
Information to receive at the point of referral or consent:
- Breast Cancer Now – Radiotherapy for primary breast cancer
- Breast Cancer Now – information on male breast cancer
Information to receive at the start or during the treatment:
- Breast Cancer Now – Reducing the risk of lymphoedema
- Breast Cancer Now – Living with lymphoedema after breast cancer
Information on the late effects to receive at the end of treatment:
Prostate patients
Information to receive at the point of referral or consent:
Information to receive at the start or during the treatment:
- Any other Prostate Cancer UK patient leaflets that cover different parts of the treatment journey
Information on late effects to receive at the end of the treatment:
- Macmillan – Managing the bowel late effects of pelvic radiotherapy
- Macmillan – Managing the bladder late effects of pelvic radiotherapy
Other useful resources:
CNS / Brain patients
- The Brain Tumour charity website
- The Brains Trust charity website
- The Brains Trust has orderable paper booklets and patients can order a “Brain Box” from the charity (the ‘must have’ support toolkit for people with a new brain tumour diagnosis and their carers”).
Sarcoma patients
Information to receive at the point of referral or consent:
Information to receive at the start or during the treatment:
Palliative patients
- Macmillan – Malignant spinal cord compression (MSCC)
- Macmillan – Malignant spinal cord compression (MSCC) alert card
- Cancer Research UK – Palliative treatment
- Cancer Research UK – Radiotherapy to relieve symptoms (site specific information)
Information for metastatic prostate cancer:
- Prostate Cancer UK – Radiotherapy for advanced prostate cancer
- Prostate Cancer UK – Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression (MSCC)
Information for metastatic breast cancer:
Head & Neck patients
Information on late effects to receive at the end of the treatment:
Lung patients
Information to receive at the start or during the treatment:
Information on the late effects to receive at the end of the treatment:
- Roy Castle Foundation – Radiotherapy for lung cancer (includes information on late effects)
Bladder patients
Information to receive at the point of referral or consent:
- Macmillan – Understanding non-muscle invasive bladder cancer
- Macmillan – Understanding muscle invasive bladder cancer
Information to receive at the start or during the treatment or at the end of the treatment:
- Macmillan – Managing the bowel late effects of pelvic radiotherapy
- Macmillan – Managing the bladder late effects of pelvic radiotherapy
Other useful resources:
Gynaecology patients
Information to receive at the start or during the treatment:
- Macmillan – Understanding cervical cancer
- Macmillan – Understanding your womb (endometrial) cancer
- Macmillan – Understanding cancer of the vulva
- Macmillan – Understanding cancer of the ovary, fallopian tube and peritoneum
Information to receive at the start or during the treatment or at the end of the treatment:
- Macmillan – Managing the bowel late effects of pelvic radiotherapy
- Macmillan – Managing the bladder late effects of pelvic radiotherapy
Other useful resources:
Lower GI or anal cancer patients
Information to receive at the point of referral or consent
- Macmillan – Understanding colon cancer
- Macmillan – Understanding rectal cancer
- Macmillan – Understanding anal cancer
Information to receive at the start or during the treatment or at the end of the treatment:
Other useful resources:
Skin patients
Thyroid patients
Information to receive at the point of referral / consent / at the start or during the treatment :
Information on the late effects to receive at the end of treatment:
