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Strike action from Thursday 27 June to Tuesday 2 July 2024

Junior doctors at The Christie will strike from 7am on Thursday 27 June until 7am on Tuesday 2 July 2024.

We are proactively contacting patients with appointments that may be affected. If you have an appointment on any of these dates, please continue to come to The Christie and our other centres as planned, unless we contact you to tell you otherwise. Please do not call to check if your appointment is still going ahead.

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Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)

This is a highly specialised type of radiotherapy treatment which delivers a high dose of radiotherapy to a small area of the brain.

This treatment is only available in The Christie at Salford. We deliver it using a modified linear accelerator (a radiotherapy machine) called a Novalis Tx.

SRS is used to treat some small benign brain tumours (vestibular schwannomas and meningiomas) and some small brain metastases (tumours which have spread into the brain from other parts of the body). It is not routinely used in the treatment of most primary brain tumours, and is not the correct treatment for everyone. Your doctor can discuss this with you and answer any questions.

Last updated: March 2023

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