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Treatment on trial

Acoustic cluster therapy uses microscopic clusters of bubbles and liquid droplets to enhance the delivery of chemotherapy drugs to tumours. We meet some of the team involved in trialling this innovative new treatment – and the first patient in the world to receive it – at The Royal Marsden

Jo North, 45, mum of melanoma patient Freya, 10

Read more about Jo's story now her daughter has finished treatment and how the family are looking forward to enjoying the simple life

As many patients and families who have had treatment at The Royal Marsden will understand, you have something in your head that you’re most looking forward to doing when it’s fin

A Day in the life: Clinical Lead of Physiotherapy Outpatients

I’ve been working as the Clinical Lead of Physiotherapy Outpatients at The Royal Marsden in Chelsea for just over a year.

Two-year-old Charlotte Stevenson received larotrectinib as part of the SCOUT trial

Targeted drug approved for young patients

A new class of cancer drug that was trialled in the Oak Paediatric and Adolescent Drug Development Unit at The Royal Marsden has been approved for use in Europe.

Young patient Theodora-Angelica Acha with scientists Ruby Callister, Oliver Gurney-Champion, Carol Box and Corrinne Brooks

Theo's special science teachers

Budding scientist Theodora- Angelica Acha has been keeping up with her schoolwork during treatment, thanks to some special help from experts at The Royal Marsden and The Institut