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New building - under the ground

2008 was the first year for the new underground Finsen building. The building includes Rigshospitalet’s Department of Radiation Oncology and the PET Center which is biggest in Northern Europe.

So far the new Finsen building has increased the past radiation therapy capacity by 75 patients per day, with a total daily treatment capacity of about 325 patients.

For the time being, the underground building includes four high-tech accelerators, an MR scanner and PET/CT scanner to be used for planning radiation therapy.

Furthermore, new recreation facilities have been designed for patients, as well as work and recreation areas for the department’s 150 employees.

Other than increased treatment capacity there has been an improvement of the quality of the treatment in the Department of Radiation Oncology. This means that Rigshospitalet is now the leading player in a wide number of areas such as image-controlled treatment, PET/CT planned radiation therapy, stereothasy and respiratory-controlled treatment.

The Department of Radiation Oncology has contributed to the development of a new treatment system called RapidArc and the department is now the first in the world offering cancer patients this treatment.

As a result of Copenhagen Hospitals’ and subsequently the Capital Region of Denmark’s targeted efforts to expand the capacity in radiation therapy, there was no waiting time for radiation therapy in 2008.

The Finsen building is named after Denmark’s first Nobel Prize winner in medicine and physiology, Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860-1904). Finsen was awarded the prize for his research in the health-preventive and healing effects of natural light.