{"id":731173,"date":"2026-06-12T05:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731173\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:12:25","slug":"prostate-beam-therapy-spares-patients-daily-hospital-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731173\/","title":{"rendered":"Prostate beam therapy spares patients daily hospital trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Peter Johnson, the NHS\u2019s national clinical director for cancer, said: \u201cThis technology lets us focus a powerful and precise beam of radiotherapy directly on to the cancer, limiting the damage to healthy cells \u2013 and the fact it can be delivered in 15 fewer doses will help men get back to living their lives far more quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an important step to make this pioneering treatment available on the NHS, following trials that were led by the UK \u2013 although it is not suitable for everyone with localised prostate cancer, we\u2019d encourage anyone with questions about their treatment options to speak to their specialist team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Innovative cancer treatment\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/2026\/06\/02\/james-murrays-prostate-screening-expansion-falls-short\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Murray<\/a>, the Health Secretary, said: \u201cThousands of men with prostate cancer will benefit from this pioneering precision radiotherapy, helping them access faster, more effective treatment while reducing the strain that cancer care can place on patients and their families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBacked by the Government\u2019s \u00a370m investment in radiotherapy machines, this treatment targets tumours with greater accuracy, helping to reduce side effects and allowing many patients to complete their treatment in a fraction of the time compared with conventional radiotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important step in delivering our national cancer plan, expanding access to innovative cancer treatments, ensuring more patients benefit from the latest advances in cancer care closer to home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph is calling for <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health-fitness\/0\/the-men-most-at-risk-of-prostate-cancer-and-how-to-get-test\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">targeted screening<\/a>, so that men with a family history of disease, black men and those with high-risk genes would be offered prostate-specific antigen tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prof Peter Johnson, the NHS\u2019s national clinical director for cancer, said: \u201cThis technology lets us focus a powerful&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,1617,137,3726,500,44,353961,16758,353962,53488,156,5515],"class_list":["post-731173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cancer","tag-health","tag-health-news","tag-healthcare","tag-news","tag-nhs-national-health-service","tag-prostate-cancer","tag-prostate-cancer-testing-saves-lives","tag-radiotherapy","tag-standard","tag-uk-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}