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Thanks to donations made by our wonderful supporters, a man diagnosed with three separate cancers within three years became the first patient to be treated at The Christie using a revolutionary radiotherapy machine.

Listen to David’s story here

David Hutson, 60, is being treated for prostate cancer using the MR-guided linear accelerator (MR-linac) which is the first machine of its kind to do real-time MRI scans while it targets X-ray radiation beams at tumours, making it more accurate and reducing side effects. David, fromWarrington, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in September 2018 having already just been diagnosed with skin cancer in 2017 and treated for throat cancer in May 2016.

David said: “I’m really excited to be the first patient to be treated with the MR-linac at The Christie. I’d researched prostate cancer treatment a lot and heard about this machine. So I wrote to Professor Choudhury at The Christie personally to request that I be considered for first treatment. I have had a very difficult time with cancer and I believe the treatment will give me a better quality of life and minimal side-effects in comparison to other treatments. It’s nice to know that my treatment will help research treatments for cancer patients in the future.”

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