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How whole body MRI scans can help with myeloma

The UK is at the forefront of whole body MRI scanning worldwide. We have more experience than anywhere else in the world, having carried out more than 10,000 of these investigations. Dr. Anwar Padhani, Professor of Radiology at the Paul Strickland Scanner Centre, explains.

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Low dose CT scanning in cancer care

People with cancer are now able to benefit from lower radiation doses than ever before when having CT scans as part of their routine medical care and follow up. Dr Andrew Gogbashian explains.

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Dr Strickland with a PET-CT scanner

How we made Dr Strickland’s vision a reality

With a brand new, faster Positron Emission Tomography and Computed Tomography (PET-CT) scanner due for installation at the Centre in 2022, Dr Wai-Lup Wong gives insight into the fascinating history of this revolutionary scanning technique which counts our founder, Dr Paul Strickland, as one of its pioneers.

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Head and neck patient

Head and neck doctors join forces

A unique collaboration between Paul Strickland Scanner Centre (PSSC) and Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC) is seen as hugely beneficial to the care and treatment of cancer patients at Mount Vernon.

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Mrs Cathy Williams Chair

New Chair of Board appointed

Mrs Cathy Williams has been appointed as the new Chair of the Paul Strickland Scanner Centre Trustee Board, following the retirement of Dr Terry Wright.

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Metastatic breast cancer hope

Research made possible by a gift left in her Will by a supporter of PSSC finds that whole-body MRI could drastically improve metastatic breast cancer care.

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CT scan patient and two radiographers

Centre joins project that could speed up cancer diagnosis

We’ve joined a pilot study for the Vague Symptoms Pathway (VSP), a programme that could one day lead to a faster diagnosis of cancer for patients. The programme aims to find the quickest, most efficient way to reach a diagnosis in patients who visit their GP with non-specific symptoms. Although

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Andre Nunes

‘My practice is centred on the patient’

André Nunes, who recently returned to us from an important role in central London, writes about the role of the technologist. ‘I was born in Portugal and moved to the UK in 2008. My initial degree was in Nuclear Medicine and I have since completed several post- graduate studies: MSc

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