Durham Regional Cancer Centre
Lakeridge Health is located at 1 Hospital Court in Oshawa. One resident is accepted at this location every two years.
Treatments and Techniques used at Lakeridge
IMRT/VMAT/IGRT for external beam Radiation Therapy
SBRT for lung, bones, kidney, liver, adrenals, spine (linac based VMAT)
SRS for brain metastases (linac based VMAT and fixed cones)
Prostate, Gynae and Skin HDR brachytherapy
Sites treated: GU, Breast, GI, Lung, Gynae, Skin, Lymphoma, Palliative
Vendors used at Lakeridge
- 7 Elekta Linacs (all with 160 MLC, 2 with 6 degrees of freedom couch, 4 with 6FFF beam, 5 with response gating system)
- Elekta HDR (Flexitron)
- Elekta Oncentra (HDR planning)
- Elekta Oncentra Prostate (real time US based prostate HDR)
- Siemens CT simulators (large bore, 40 and 64 slice, 4DCT)
- Siemens MRI (in partnership with hospital)
- Elekta TPS (Monaco)
- Elekta ROIS (Mosaiq)
- Sun Nuclear (ArcCheck, Mapcheck, QA3, Profiler)
- IBA Dosimetry (Blue phantom water tank)
Research Highlights
- Implementation of MRI based interstitial cervix HDR
- Quality improvements for HDR (eg. applicator library, machine learning for needle detection)
- Quality improvement and evaluation of technology implementation (eg. hydrogel spacer, SBRT program expansion, FFF implementation, treatment outcomes analysis, process control for quality assurance)
Get more information
Dr. Katharina Sixel, Site Coordinator
Email: ksixel@lh.ca