The Radiotherapy Oncology unit at the Doctor José Molina Orosa University Hospital, affiliated with the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, has carried out more than 7,500 sessions since it was launched in December 2023.
The commissioning of this unit represented a qualitative leap in the care of cancer patients in Lanzarote, who have seen their quality of life and comfort substantially improve over the last two years by undergoing radiotherapy treatment at the hospital, without having to travel to the reference center in Gran Canaria.
Throughout this time, the unit has been implementing improvements for patients, and in March of this year, it incorporated a specialist in Hospital Radiophysics into its staff, who carries out monitoring to guarantee the highest standards and quality criteria in the planning of Radiotherapy treatments and the delivery of radiation doses from the linear particle accelerator.
Care activities
During 2024, the Radiation Oncology unit treated 326 patients and performed a total of 4,177 radiotherapy sessions on the linear accelerator. In 2025, up to September, 285 patients had been treated and around 3,000 radiotherapy sessions had been performed.
Regarding outpatient activity, 1,853 follow-up patient reviews were carried out in 2024 at the hospital, while this year, as of September, 1,913 consultations have been attended. For their part, the nursing team attended 1,093 consultations during the past year and 785 during the first nine months of this year.
Collaboration with Dr. Negrín Hospital
The Molina Orosa unit is made up of a team of twenty-one Radiation Oncology specialists from the Gran Canaria University Hospital Doctor Negrín who travel to Lanzarote, guaranteeing quality care for patients on their island of residence. The consultations carried out in the unit allow for close monitoring of people with cancer, supervision of treatment response, as well as the detection of possible relapses and complications.
Radiation oncologists, in addition to patient care, collaborate on tumor boards and in activities and projects related to this pathology at Molina Orosa
Since its launch, the unit has operated with complete normality, and the medical staff describe its performance as very good. In this regard, the head of the Radiotherapy Oncology service, Marta Lloret, assures that "the entire team of professionals has worked over these years to improve access to medical services for cancer patients on the island with the best diagnostic tools and appropriate treatments".
For his part, the manager of the Lanzarote Health Services, Pablo Eguia, congratulates himself on the work done in these two years, while reiterating that "we continue working to provide the hospital with the technological and human resources and equipment that allow for comprehensive and quality care for the island's patients and to avoid, as far as possible, their displacement to referral hospitals".
A complete team for the care of cancer patients
In addition to the 21 specialist doctors who make it up, the Radiotherapy Oncology unit has a nurse, a nursing care technician, a hospital radiophysicist, four radiotherapy technicians, two administrative assistants, and the engineers who travel from Gran Canaria to supervise the correct functioning of the accelerator.On the other hand, it should be noted that the Molina Orosa has implemented a pioneering system in the Canary Islands for verifying patient positioning before each radiotherapy session, which improves and guarantees the precision and effectiveness of the treatmentsRegarding the indications for radiotherapy and the care provided by the unit, it is worth noting that radiotherapy is part of the multidisciplinary treatment of cancer and is used in up to 70 percent of patients, mainly for tumors of the breast, prostate, rectum, lung, and sarcomas, among others.