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Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (PM), downtown Toronto

University Health Network

Princess Margaret is located at 610 University Ave in Toronto. Currently there are four Medical Physics residents at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (two 1st year and two 2nd year residents). The current salary for Medical Physics Residents at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre is $82,000 (1st year) and $85,000 (2nd year). Full details of salary, benefits, and compensation will be provided to candidates during the application process.

Treatments and Techniques used at Princess Margaret

External Beam RT (Linac)

  • 3D Conformal
  • IMRT
  • VMAT
  • SBRT
  • IGRT
  • TBI

Brachytherapy

  • Permanent Seed Implant
  • HDR
  • Eye Plaque Program 

Orthovoltage

Specialized Techniques

  • SRS
  • MRL (Elekta Unity)

Vendors used at Princess Margaret

  • Treatment Planning Systems: Philips (Pinnacle), Varian (BrachyVision), Elekta (Oncentra, Monaco), Raystation
  • Linear Accelerators: Varian and Elekta
  • SRS: Elekta (Perfexion/GammaKnife)
  • Imaging (Simulation): GE, Toshiba, Philips
  • HDR: Elekta (Nucletron)

Research Highlights

  • IGRT
  • Radiomics
  • Analysis of Outcomes
  • Process Automation
  • Adaptive Radiotherapy
  • Deformable Registration and Dose Accumulation
  • AI/Machine Learning (including Automated Planning, Automated QC)
  • Quality Assurance and Safety Related Research
  • Small Animal Radiotherapy
  • Imaging (PET, SPECT, MR)
  • Dosimetry
  • Monte Carlo Simulations
  • Brachytherapy, including MR-guided brachytherapy

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