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16 May 2012
New NICE guidance recommends that patients with advanced prostate cancer receive abiraterone acetate on the NHS.
14 May 2012
For the fifth year in a row The Royal Marsden has been rated as excellent by the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre following an annual inspection.
10 May 2012
Two eminent researchers from the ICR and The Royal Marsden have been elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in recognition of their efforts to defeat prostate cancer.
09 May 2012
The Olympic Torch was held by excited patients, staff and visitors in the Oak Centre for Children and Young People, the Playhouse Day Nursery and Oak Drug Development Ward.
25 April 2012
Between October 2011 and January 2012 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) carried out a review of The Royal Marsden as part of its routine schedule of planned reviews. A questionnaire was sent to 850 recent inpatients, and responses were received from 494 of them. The review covered several areas of care and found that The Royal Marsden is performing ‘better’ than most other Trusts reviewed in the survey.
10 April 2012
The BBC documentary series Horizon will follow The Royal Marsden and the ICR in the episode ‘Horizon: Defeating Cancer’.
05 April 2012
Professor Johann de Bono from The Royal Marsden and The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) will collaborate with other leading prostate cancer researchers in a $10 million global effort to drive the development of personalised treatment for this disease.
22 March 2012
A multidisciplinary team from The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and The Royal Marsden has won a prestigious global award for its success at taking new cancer drugs from concept to patients.
16 March 2012
In common with most other NHS hospitals in England, The Royal Marsden levies car parking charges. Car parking charges in Sutton increased in June 2010. These were the first increases since The Royal Marsden first introduced car parking charges in 1996.
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