Cancer team win award for breakthrough
Published: November 16, 2005
A TEAM of cancer specialists from Edinburgh have won a top award for their pioneering work treating patients with prostate cancer. [Prostate Cancer : What Every Man- -and His Family Need to Know]
Dr Duncan McLaren and his team from the Edinburgh Cancer Centre at the Western General Hospital have been awarded the Hospital Doctor Award for Team of the Year.
The team was commended for a new treatment that implants radioactive “seeds” in or near the cancerous tumour.
Dr McLaren said a major challenge for his team was securing funding for the relatively unknown treatment as well as winning the support of GPs and other hospital staff.
Initial funding for the project came in the form of a three-year National Lottery grant and the cost is now shared between the various health boards who use it.
A judge at the awards said:
“There is a clear sense that the patients are fully involved in the treatment process and in the continuous audit of outcome to allow optimisation of this service.”
A team from the Capital also made it into the finals for the Award for Academic Medicine.
Professor Dorothy Crawford and her Edinburgh University team were among the three finalists and were highly commended by judges for their work in clinical and molecular virology.
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