Radiotherapy treatment at new hospital edges closer

PLANS to provide radiotherapy to private patients at a new hospital to open soon in Waterford have edged a step closer. And it emerged the hospital plans delivery of a second linear accelerator, the machine which provides radiotherapy, before Christmas.

UPMC Cancer Centres International has appointed two senior personnel to work at the UPMC Whitfield Cancer Centre at Butlerstown in Waterford where the first cancer patients will receive radiotherapy and other treatments from early November.

Dr Dayle J Hacking has been appointed consultant radiation oncologist while Mr Nathan G Anderson is the new medical physicist.