World Radiography Day 2025

World Radiography Day takes place on 8 November every year. This is the anniversary of Wilhelm Roentgen’s discovery of the X-ray in 1895, with World Radiography Day aiming to raise awareness of radiography among the public.

You can hear from some of our radiographers at The Christie about what they do in their roles, and how radiography plays in important roles in cancer patients’ treatment.

“Interventional radiology is all about the action! We use X-rays to create live video images that help minimally invasive operations for around 3,000 people a year.

“I helped deliver some of the first proton beam therapy treatments on the NHS and am now working on research to understand more about facial deformation after radiotherapy, a life-altering long-term side effect of treatment in children with head and neck cancer.”

Lucy Davies, specialised therapeutic radiographer in research

“As a team, we take 12,000 X-rays a year which are used to look for everything from infections to broken bones. We are based in the X-ray department but also have portable machines so we can take X-rays on the wards, and even into surgery.

“Radiographers in the team have been trained to check if feeding tubes are in the right place, and others have done advanced training to write reports on what they see on the X-rays.”

Victory Ejim, diagnostic radiographer in the X-ray department

“I’m a radiographer working at The Christie at Macclesfield, one of the 4 locations where patients can have radiotherapy. In total, we deliver over 104,000 radiotherapy treatments each year.”

George Iddon, senior therapeutic radiographer

You can read about the role of therapeutic radiographers as well as find out a bit more about what the radiographers in the proton beam therapy centre at The Christie do.