Open Face Mask Great Innovation for Cancer Patients
When Julie was treated for throat cancer in 2013 with radiation therapy, her only option was a Full Face Immobilisation Mask to keep her head completely still. The mask is a safety measure so that the radiation beam targets the tumour precisely and avoids as much healthy tissue as possible.
Now an Open Face Mask is an option for eligible cancer patients at ICON Cancer Centres in Adelaide. Julie interviewed Lydia Tamblyn, Site Manager at ICON Cancer Centre North Adelaide, about the innovations that have made this possible. In this video we see the technology called SGRT, Surface Guided Radiation Therapy.
Thank You
Icon Cancer Centre North Adelaide
Lydia Tamblyn, Site Manager
Daniel Ramm, Lead Medical Physicist
Angela Blair, Nurse Unit Manager
Hannah Braunack, Radiation Therapy Manager
Quỳnh Nguyen, Senior Radiation Therapist
Daji Lim, Radiation Therapist
Rebecca Brown, Admin Manager
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ICON Open Face Mask Project Team Leads
Tai Tran, Senior Medical Physicist
Millie Taylor- Brown, Senior Radiation Therapist
South Australian Teams
ICON Cancer Centre Windsor Gardens
ICON Cancer Centre Noarlunga
Host
Julie McCrossin AM
Head & Neck Cancer Survivor
Media Production
Daniel Taylor
