With one in two people expected to develop cancer at some point in their lifetime, we want to do all we can to help the patients treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

We are a centre of excellence for cancer care in the West Midlands and want to do all we can to help the hundreds of children and adults who are treated at QEHB as they face one of the toughest challenges in their lives.

Our fantastic supporters have helped us fund some incredible state-of-the-art equipment and research that has saved lives as well as create spaces that make the wards feel less clinical.

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A few years ago we funded Cyberknife. The CyberKnife machine is a robotic system which uses high doses of radiation to sub-millimetre accuracy as it has the ability to track the tumours' position throughout the treatment.

The CyberKnife machine is able to treat small well well-defined tumours located in traditionally difficult-to-reach parts of the body which if damaged would have devastating effects. It is commonly used to treat selected brain tumours and increasingly used to treat other tumours around the body.

We also funded a TomoTherapy HD treatment system which is a combined radiotherapy treatment machine and CT imaging system.

It enables daily imaging prior to treatment to ensure that the patient is positioned accurately before delivering intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT).

This technique permits better shaping of the radiation dose around the tumour and helps to reduce the dose to healthy tissues or critical structures. The TomoTherapy HD treatment system can be used to treat many different tumour sites.