Advanced Oncotherapy Share Discussion Threads

[freddythefish] 26/7/2016 15:33

Just a comment on the "radioactive patients" External (X-Ray, beam-type treatment) does not make you radioactive.

Internal radiation treatment (Brachytherapy - something entirely different from proton beam) does make you (slightly) radioactive. It is well contained within the body (i.e. the source cannot "leak" out) and the recommendation to stay a small distance away from pregnant women is precautionary.

The statement above, presumably from a resident, is scaremongering.

ftf - (who has had internal radiation therapy)

[igbertsponk] 26/7/2016 13:50

The bike nonsense is in the transport plan that AVO have submitted to the planners, trying to suggest that there won't be any traffic impact of all their staff and patients arriving in ambulances and blocking up the mews street whilst waiting for their radiation zaps. As all the patients will of course pedal up on Boris Bikes.....

[twirl] 26/7/2016 13:40

I ignore Igbert as I consider him a deramper wanting to get in on the cheap. Maybe I am wrong - but I doubt it.

The Planning Committee decide and they are faced with the votes of a handful of residents compared with the newspaper headlines "Residents block cancer cure"

[someuwin] 26/7/2016 13:22

Looking perky today.

[igbertsponk] 26/7/2016 12:58

Don't tell me metis - tell the worried residents.

[daijavu] 25/7/2016 07:06

Decision hoped to be in mid August

[grahamhacker] 22/7/2016 08:23

Does anybody know the timescale for the planning application process? Many thanks

[vatnabrekk] 15/7/2016 17:19

Surely AVO can arrange a meeting with the residents to hear their concerns and discuss it with them. Or have they done that already?

[igbertsponk] 15/7/2016 09:36

daijavu - that's why I follow the company too - I'm interested in buying as like the tech and the "miracle cure" element.
But that doesn't mean I'm not blind to the bumps along the road.
If you have a read of some of the planning gumph, you'll see that they claim to have already (both AVO and De Walden) met with the residents and sorted out all their concerns. As developers often do when submitting contentious plans. But the comments but the residents do not refer to these meetings at all. So all is not as well as someone is making out.
For that reason I think there will be a planning delay, which will knock into cash and timing, and require another fund raising. Which I don't think is built into the price. So I'll wait to invest until things are resolved.
Happy for you all to shoot the messenger!

[daijavu] 14/7/2016 18:50

Igbert. I do understand.

However, just suppose that the AVO application is withdrawn. How long do you think it will be before some other project replaces it? I imagine that de Waldon might always have plans for the site.

Neither I nor the other posters on this site have any influence over de Waldon and no influence over AVO either. We are are merely very minor bit players.
It does not affect AVO or AVO's plans whether we own AVO shares or not. Some of us own a few AVO shares because we see it as an ethical investment that has the potential to bring low cost, life saving treatment of cancer to the world in a way no other company can. One of the main claims that AVO makes for its technology is that it can be safely used in any city centre location, such as Harley Street, whereas no other suppliers of proton therapy systems can make such claims because their cyclotrons need so much shielding.

[igbertsponk] 14/7/2016 17:12

daijavu - take a Google Streetview walk along Devonshire Mews and you'll see what a lovely residential gem of a mews street it is. Immaculate in fact, not a car parked even ! Perhaps you'll then understand why the residents are so vociferous in their objections.

[daijavu] 14/7/2016 16:38

Igbert. Have you thought about talking to AVO about your concerns?

[igbertsponk] 14/7/2016 15:16

That's why they're putting in a bed lift (access only from Mews) is it then Twirl ?

[twirl] 14/7/2016 14:06

Igbert is the mouthpiece for getting in on the cheap. I doubt that many patients will arrive by ambulance. We are not talking A&E but planned treatment.

[werty5] 14/7/2016 12:11

Igbert do you live on the mews? It sounds very much like your a mouthpiece for the residents.

[daijavu] 14/7/2016 11:25

I'm not dismissing their complaints. I was merely pointing out that some of their concerns are not quite as they fear.

[igbertsponk] 14/7/2016 10:10

They'll still have to put up with ambulances turning up with patients every 5 minutes and parking there all day.
Don't think you can dismiss their valid complaints so easily.

[daijavu] 14/7/2016 09:48

Thanks richman, The letter seems to deal with the radiation concerns that the residents have raised. The other issues are more routine. If the Howard de Waldon construction timetable is adhered to the residents will have to put up with it for months and not the years they fear.

[daijavu] 14/7/2016 09:07

The pullback doesn't seem likely today.

[immokalee] 14/7/2016 00:28

Considering nothing keeps going up, a pullback is more than likely.