Our radiotherapy department currently has around 2,000 patients using the service each year from across the UK. We provide treatment for common cancers as well as delivering more specialist treatment.
We are really proud to have expanded our service to include proton beam therapy. This new centre, housed in our Grafton Way building, is part of the national NHS service delivering proton beam therapy alongside The Christie in Manchester.
Patient contact
Other contact information
Opening times: 8.15am - 6.30pm
Address
Radiotherapy
Basement (B)
University College Hospital
235 Euston Road
London, NW1 2BU
Referral address
Cancer Radiotherapy Service
UCH Referrals Centre
University College London Hospitals
Ground Floor North
250 Euston Road
London NW1 2PG
We are proud to be:
- The third largest centre in the UK for head and neck cancer
- One of two designated specialist multidisciplinary teams for the North and East London Network for gynaecological cancers
- The largest UK paediatric and young adult centre for radiotherapy, with a close partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital.
- The largest adult and teenage neuro-oncology service, including providing services for the south of England for stereotactic radiosurgery Link- to Child and TYA page
- Providing Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR) for a broad range of cancer indications.
- A national referral centre for targeted molecular radiotherapy taking referrals from across the UK for paediatrics, teenage and young adults and adults. This service is delivered in conjunction with the Institute of Nuclear Medicine
- Delivering total body irradiation for haematological conditions
- Delivering Brachytherapy to a range of sites
- Accredited under ISO 9001:2015 for the way we manage our patients and the improvement in the services they receive.
- From 2021, one of only two NHS high energy proton beam therapy centres
- The service also has access to MRI and PET-CT to facilitate image fusion in order to accurately define the treatment target volume and critical organs ensuring high levels of precision.
Patients are able to contact the department by telephone or email after their treatment finishes. All patients are seen in a clinic either at UCLH or their referring local hospital, by the clinical oncology consultant and their team.
Our department has state of the art radiotherapy equipment comprising of:
Please visit our treatment options and equipment page for a full comprehensive list
- four Varian TrueBeam systems with advanced imaging packages and respiratory and organ motion management systems
- 6 Degrees of Freedom couches
- a comprehensive brachytherapy suite
- a Gulmay skin unit
- a pre-treatment suite with a mould room and CT scanner
The PBT department is equipped with:
- four Varian Probeam proton therapy systems with advanced imaging packages
- 6 Degrees of Freedom couches
- a pre-treatment suite with a CT scanner and a MRI scanner
- Biatain® dressings for radiotherapy and proton beam therapy skin reactions
- Contrast agents for radiotherapy and proton beam therapy CT and MRI planning scans
- Having proton beam therapy: a guide for parents and carers
- Having proton beam therapy: a guide for patients and carers
- Hormone therapy for prostate cancer
- Information for carers of children or young people having mIBG and topotecan (MATIN) treatment
- Information for carers of children or young people having mIBG treatment
- Mepilex® dressings for radiotherapy and proton beam therapy skin reactions
- Molecular Radiotherapy Information Series 3 Information for adults having Lutetium (Lu-177) treatment
- Molecular Radiotherapy Series No. 6 - Information for parents of children and young people having radioactive iodine (131I) treatment
- Molecular Radiotherapy Series No. 7 - Information for parents of children and young people having radioisotope treatment
- On treatment diary for patients having head and neck radiotherapy or proton beam therapy
- Paediatric Series No 01- Radiotherapy to the brain
- Paediatric Series No 02 - Radiotherapy to the head, mouth and neck
- Paediatric Series No 03- Radiotherapy to the chest
- Paediatric Series No 04- Radiotherapy to the abdomen and pelvis
- Paediatric Series No 05- Radiotherapy to the testes
- Paediatric Series No 06- Radiotherapy to the whole brain
- Paediatric Series No 07- Radiotherapy to the whole central nervous system
- Paediatric Series No 08 - Radiotherapy to the whole lungs
- Paediatric Series No 09 - Having total body irradiation
- Paediatric Series No 10 - Radiotherapy to the spine
- Paediatric Series No 11- Radiotherapy to a limb
- Paediatric Series No 12 - Anaesthesia for children having radiotherapy
- Paediatric Series No 15 - Radiotherapy to the abdomen
- Paediatric Series No 16 - Radiotherapy to the Pelvis
- Paediatric Series No 17 - Radiotherapy to the neck and chest
- Paediatric Series No 18 - Radiotherapy to the neck, chest, abdomen and pelvis
- Paediatric Series No 19 - Radiotherapy to the eye (orbit)
- Paediatric series no.13 - Anaesthesia for children having proton beam therapy
- Polymem® dressings for radiotherapy and proton beam therapy skin reactions
- Prostate high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy
- Proton beam therapy - An easy read guide
- Radiotherapy - An easy read guide
- Series No - 43 Radiotherapy to the adult brain and spine
- Series No 1 - General skincare advice for patients having radiotherapy
- Series No 12 - Having total body irradiation
- Series No 13 - Radiotherapy to the adult spine
- Series No 17 - Finishing Radiotherapy Treatment
- Series No 2 - Radiotherapy to the Breast
- Series No 20 - Vaginal Brachytherapy (Internal radiotherapy)
- Series No 25 - High dose rate (HDR) endo-oesophageal (gullet) brachytherapy
- Series No 26 - High dose rate (HDR) endo-bronchial brachytherapy
- Series No 28 - Gyanaecological bowel preparation
- Series No 29 - Gynaecology Radiotherapy
- Series No 3 - Radiotherapy and chemoradiotherapy to the head, mouth and neck
- Series No 36 - Internal intrauterine radiotherapy treatment as an inpatient
- Series No 36 HDR brachytherapy for cancer of the cervix
- Series No 39 - Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) for lung cancer
- Series No 4 - Radiotherapy to the brain
- Series No 41 - Radiotherapy for tumours of the base of skull
- Series No 41 - Radiotherapy for tumours of the base of skull
- Series No 42 - Radiotherapy for meningiomas
- Series No 44 - Radiotherapy for craniopharyngiomas and pituitary adenomas
- Series No 45 - Conformal radiotherapy for brain metastases
- Series No 46 - Superficial radiotherapy treatment to the skin
- Series No 5 - Molecular Radiotherapy for adults having radioactive iodine (131I) treatment
- Series No 5 - Radiotherapy to the prostate or prostate bed
- Series No 50 - Having radiotherapy to a limb
- Series No 51- Radiotherapy to the bladder
- Series No 52 - Radiotherapy for bone pain
- Series No 56 - Bowel Preparation for Prostate Patients
- Series No 57 - Radiotherapy for cancers of the abdomen
- Series No 6 - radiotherapy to the chest
- Series No 65 - A service evaluation of MRI scanning as part of the pre-treatment process in proton beam therapy
- Series No 8 - Radiotherapy to the pelvis
