Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) gives radiotherapy from many different angles around the body. The beams meet at the tumour. This means the tumour receives a high dose of radiation and the tissues around it receive a much lower dose. This lowers the risk of side effects.
Usually you have between 1 and 8 treatments.
You might hear a few different terms for stereotactic radiotherapy, which can be confusing. Stereotactic treatment for the body might be called stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) or stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR).
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Stereotactic radiotherapy to the brain might be called stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). This is usually a single treatment. If you have more than one treatment to the brain, this is usually called stereotactic treatment.
When you might have stereotactic radiotherapy
This type of radiotherapy is mainly used to treat very small cancers, including:
- cancer in the lung
- cancer that started in the liver or cancer that has spread to the liver
- cancers in the lymph nodes
- spinal cord tumours
- cancer spread in the brain
Stereotactic radiotherapy can also treat areas of the body that have been treated with radiotherapy before. For example, if someone has already had radiotherapy to their pelvis they usually wouldn't be able to have radiotherapy to the same area again. But because stereotactic treatment is so precise it can often mean re-treatment is possible.
Research is being carried out to see what other cancers stereotactic treatment will be helpful for.
Planning stereotactic radiotherapy
Planning SRT involves several steps.
You start with having a CT scan in the radiotherapy department. You may also have MRI scans or PET scans of the area of your body to be treated. The information from these scans feeds directly into the radiotherapy planning computer.
The computer programme then designs radiation beams that follow the shape of the cancer very closely.
Your doctor makes sure that all of the cancer is inside the radiotherapy field and they avoid as much healthy tissue as possible. This reduces the risk of side effects.
Skin markings
The radiographers (sometimes called radiotherapists) might make marks on your skin that act as reference points to make sure every treatment session is accurate.
Radiotherapy masks and moulds
If you are having radiotherapy to your head or neck, you may need to wear a radiotherapy mask during your treatment. You may hear this called a shell or mould.
Most types of masks are made of a mesh material with lots of small holes. You can have a mould for other parts of the body, such as the breast or limbs.
The mould or mask keeps the treatment area completely still, so your treatment will be as accurate as possible.
Metal markers
Your doctor or radiographer may ask you to have small metal markers (fiducial markers) put in or near your tumour. This is common for prostate cancer.
To place the markers, your doctor inserts a needle into the area of skin over the cancer. They do this while you are having an ultrasound scan. Once the tip of the needle is in the right place your doctor releases small gold pellets or rods.
Your radiographers can then see the markers on x-rays and scans while you're having treatment. They act as a marker for the treatment area, and makes sure that the treatment is very accurate. Your radiographers will take either x-rays or scans every day before treatment if you have this type of metal marker.
After the planning session
You usually have to wait a few days or up to 2 weeks for the physicist and your radiotherapy doctor to create your treatment plan.
You then get an appointment for your first session of radiotherapy.
Having stereotactic radiotherapy
To have the treatment you lie on a radiotherapy couch. The radiographers help you to get into the right position and put on any moulds that you may need.
Different machines can be used to give stereotactic radiotherapy. It is most commonly a machine called a Linear Accelerator (LINAC). But you might also have it on a CyberKnife machine.
Stereotactic radiotherapy with a LINAC
Once you are in the right position the radiographers leave the room. This is so they are not exposed to radiation.
You will be alone for the treatment, which lasts between 15 minutes to 2 hours. It can sometimes last longer than this. You might have the treatment in one go or it may be broken up with short breaks.
Your radiographers can see and hear you the whole time and can speak to you by intercom. It is important that you stay very still throughout the treatment.
You won't feel anything while you have the treatment and the machine doesn't touch you. The machine will beep from time to time.
Once the treatment is over your radiographers go back into the room and help you get down from the treatment couch.
Stereotactic radiotherapy with a CyberKnife machine
The CyberKnife radiotherapy machine has a robotic arm that moves around the treatment couch to give doses of radiation from different angles.
The radiotherapy machine usually takes x-rays every 10 to 20 seconds. The robotic arm uses the x-rays to correct its position. This allows your radiographers to target radiotherapy beams accurately at the tumour, even if the tumour moves as you breathe.
Treatment may take between 30 minutes to 4 hours depending on the type of cancer and its position in the body. CyberKnife can treat multiple tumours at the same time. So it can be very useful for areas of cancer spread.
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Side effects of stereotactic radiotherapy
Stereotactic radiotherapy targets the tumour very precisely and the risk of damage to normal surrounding tissues is low. Therefore the side effects may be less than with other types of radiotherapy.
Unfortunately you can still have side effects. As with any external beam radiotherapy, the side effects only affect the part of the body that the radiotherapy treatment is aimed at.
Getting stereotactic radiotherapy
Stereotactic radiotherapy is available at many treatment centres in the UK. This includes at NHS radiotherapy units that have specialised radiotherapy machines such as CyberKnife.
If you think this treatment may be right for your type of cancer ask your doctor. They can refer you to another centre if this would be an appropriate treatment for you.
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Considering the challenges that come with an increasing worldwide energy demand, a heightened awareness to climate changes, and the need for carbon-neutral fuel sources, research in actinide sciences is timely and crucial. Both fundamental and applied questions remain, including understanding bonding motifs with organic ligands, the generation of new fuels, recycling and environmental remediation of nuclear wastes and polluted sites, and the synthesis of new materials for chemical transformations and catalysis. Accordingly, research in the field of actinide chemistry has the potential not only for significant scientific but social and economic impacts. Over the last nine years, my research program has focused on making strides towards these challenges by focusing on understanding the fundamental chemistry of depleted uranium, and more recently, thorium and the transuranic elements. Our overall goal is to raise the understanding of the chemistry of uranium and it's neighbors with respect to organometallic, multi-electron processes, and bonding to be equal to that of its transition metal counterparts.
Our research program combines my past research experiences with new ideas in actinide chemistry to create an entirely unexplored field in the small community of actinide chemists. Specifically, we have introduced the utility of redox-active ligands for chemical transformation of biologically and industrially relevant small molecules as well as established multi-electron chemistry at this redox-restricted metal. These redox-active ligands effectively store electrons (reducing equivalents) to accomplish multi-electron redox-chemistry, allowing us to avoid the most stable, and thus, unreactive U(IV) oxidation state. We combine air- and moisture-sensitive synthetic techniques with multinuclear NMR, infrared, electronic absorption, Raman spectroscopies, and X-ray diffraction to synthesize and characterize low-valent uranium compounds. Due to the challenging nature of this chemistry, we have partnered with some excellent collaborators that help to elucidate the electronic structures of these challenging molecules using variable temperature magnetization studies (Prof. Eric Schelter, University of Pennsylvania; Prof. Matthew Shores, Colorado State University), computational analyses (Prof. Laura Gagliardi, University of Minnesota; Prof. Justin Walensky, University of Missouri), and X-ray Absorption spectroscopic measurements (Dr. Stosh Kozimor, Los Alamos National Laboratories). The depleted uranium studied in our laboratory is a readily available and inexpensive material, and its highly reducing nature and large atomic radius give this metal the potential to activate large substrates and to employ multiple coordination sites. It is safe to work with in a laboratory setting, as it has a long half-life (4.468×10 9 years) and is a weak alpha emitter. More recently, we have partnered with Prof. Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt (Florida State University) to bring our knowledge in manipulation of redox properties to additional members of the actinide series. All studies are performed in an inert atmosphere glovebox, which protects workers from exposure hazards, and all workers wear standard personal protective equipment at all times. For the life of our research program, our studies have focused on developing the chemistry of uranium for chemical transformations and organometallic chemistry. In order to maintain and expand our current knowledge of the chemistry of the actinide elements, it is imperative that the next generation of scientists is trained in how to manipulate, characterize, and apply these elements to tackle some of these important hurdles.
Education
- B.S., University of Delaware, 2001
- M.S., Cornell University, 2003
- Ph.D., Cornell University, 2006
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 2008
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Recognitions
- Rising Star Award, 2015
- Organometallics Young Investigator Fellow, 2014
- Engagement Award, 2013
- Outstanding Contributions to Teaching By An Assistant Professor, 2013
- Career Award, 2012
- Cottrell Scholar Award, 2012
- Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2006
- Chemistry and Biology Interface Training Grant, 2003
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Publications