# Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre

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## TL;DR

One of Canada's largest cancer centres, where focused ultrasound first opened the blood-brain barrier in a patient and Canada's first MR-linac was installed.

## Summary

The Odette Cancer Centre at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is one of Canada's largest cancer programmes and a University of Toronto teaching site. Sunnybrook Research Institute's Kullervo Hynynen pioneered MR-guided focused ultrasound, and in 2015 neurosurgeon Todd Mainprize used it to open the blood-brain barrier non-invasively in a brain tumour patient for the first time, work now in trials for glioblastoma and brain metastases with Insightec. Radiation oncology is a signature strength: Arjun Sahgal led the CCTG SC.24 trial of stereotactic radiotherapy for spinal metastases, Gregory Czarnota develops ultrasound-stimulated microbubble radiosensitisation, and Sunnybrook installed Canada's first MR-linac. The Odette Breast Centre and a large GU programme (including prostate brachytherapy) complete the picture.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: Odette Cancer Centre; Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- City: Toronto, ON, CA
- Type: cancer-center
- Website: https://sunnybrook.ca/content/?page=odette-cancer-centre

## Sources

- Odette Cancer Centre: https://sunnybrook.ca/content/?page=odette-cancer-centre
- Sunnybrook Research Institute: https://sunnybrook.ca/research/

## Connected records

- cancers: [Glioma & glioblastoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/glioblastoma/), [HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/), [Prostate cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/)
- technologies: [Brachytherapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/brachytherapy/), [Focused ultrasound & histotripsy](https://onco.cc/technologies/hifu-histotripsy/), [Focused-ultrasound blood-brain barrier opening](https://onco.cc/technologies/bbb-focused-ultrasound/), [Gamma Knife](https://onco.cc/technologies/gamma-knife/), [MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/mr-linac/), [SBRT / SABR (stereotactic radiotherapy)](https://onco.cc/technologies/sbrt/), [Stereotactic radiosurgery (Gamma Knife, CyberKnife, linac SRS)](https://onco.cc/technologies/radiosurgery-srs/), [Transcranial focused ultrasound systems (Exablate Neuro, SonoCloud)](https://onco.cc/technologies/transcranial-focused-ultrasound-systems/)
- companies: [Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG)](https://onco.cc/companies/cctg/), [Elekta](https://onco.cc/companies/elekta/), [Insightec](https://onco.cc/companies/insightec/)
- institutions: [Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario)](https://onco.cc/institutions/ontario-health-cancer-care-ontario/), [Princess Margaret Cancer Centre](https://onco.cc/institutions/princess-margaret/)
- terms: [Oligometastatic disease](https://onco.cc/terms/oligometastatic/)
- people: [Monika Krzyzanowska](https://onco.cc/people/monika-krzyzanowska/), [Simron Singh](https://onco.cc/people/simron-singh/)
- bottlenecks: [The brain: barrier and sanctuary](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-brain-delivery/)
- roadmaps: [Devices and physical therapies roadmap: heat and light → electric fields and focused sound → drug-releasing implants](https://onco.cc/roadmaps/devices-roadmap/)

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