Many different cancer related terms will be used by doctors and nurses throughout your treatment.

It is important to ask questions that will help you gain a better understanding of your diagnosis.

Calypso involves using radiofrequency transponders which are surgically placed in tumours to track and adjust radiation treatment beams due to natural movements of the body, such as breathing.

Triggered imaging is a technique unique to the TrueBeam linear accelerator (radiation therapy machine) and enables visual verification that a tumour is being accurately and precisely targeted. It is specifically used for prostate cancers.