ACORRN - Action Radiotherapy was launched at the House of Lords on Tuesday 13th July at a reception hosted by Lord Wade of Macclesfield.

To read more about the launch and for copies of the speeches given by Professors Pat Price and Normal Coleman, please visit our House of Lords Launch page

A new national charity which aims to help the fight against cancer is launched at Westminster today (Tue July 13).

ACORRN (Academic Clinical Oncology and Radiobiology Research Network) – Action Radiotherapy wants to raise £5m to improve radiotherapy treatment for patients.

Demand for radiotherapy services is expected to almost double over the next few years – yet a mere six per cent of money spent on cancer research in the UK goes towards research to advance radiotherapy practice.

It means that Britain is now lagging behind other parts of Europe and the USA in terms of introducing vital new radiotherapy techniques and many patients are without access to state-of-the-art treatment.

Geneva 3 June 2010. Following a workshop hosted by the CERN European particle physics laboratory in February, doctors and physicists today published a strategy for harnessing physics for health. Techniques developed for physics research have a long history of application in medicine. Today’s news recognises that synergy, and sets out a programme of strengthened collaboration.