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Going into the sensitive organ. all kinds of cancer treatments risk harming healthy tissue near the tumour and research is ongoing around the world to try and minimise this collateral damage. there has been at least one recent, ratherstrange, finding. it is to do with how quickly and how hard you deliver the dose of radiation, and it is called the "flash effect." so, you deliver the radiation in a very intense burst to the tumour instead of on several seconds, for example. you condense it in mil...

Instead of on several seconds, for example. you condense it in milliseconds. fora for example. you condense it in milliseconds. for a physicist, this should not make any difference, but it is like when you deliver it like this, the tumour gets damaged, the healthy tissue does not get damaged and it could be game changing because you could forget everything about damaging surrounding tissues, etc, and it is as if the particles would no "this is a healthy cell, this is a cancer cell." . healthy ce...

Behind the tumour.— behind the tumour. and that means that _ behind the tumour. and that means that this _ behind the tumour. and that means that this form - behind the tumour. and that means that this form of i means that this form of radiotherapy can be used in really tricky parts of the body. really tricky parts of the bod . ~ .., really tricky parts of the bod . ~ ., , really tricky parts of the bod. ., body. we can often use protons in cases which _ body. we can often use protons in cases...

Places in the uk where cancer patients come to be treated with proton beam therapy. it is a special form of radiotherapy which usually uses radiation high energy x—rays to try and kill tumours in the body but the christy has a particle accelerator and that means they can fire beams of protons at the cancer. can fire beams of protons at the cancer-— can fire beams of protons at the cancer. ~ ., ., ., ., , the cancer. when radiation goes into a patient. — the cancer. when radiation goes into...

Now, we have got recent results, not published yet, that seems to indicate that we do spare the normal tissue and we might do even more damage to the tumour, so it might be even better than people say it is. flash is tremendously exciting, and i think it is a bit "watch this space." back at cern, i am visiting a project that is looking for a different way to specifically target cancer. this robot is handling a radioactive material created by cerns medicis experiment which is looking at doing som...

Will affect a great many of us during our lifetimes — cancer. this is the christie in manchester — europes largest cancer hospital, and it is one of two places in the uk where cancer patients come to be treated with proton beam therapy. it is a special form of radiotherapy which usually uses radiation high—energy x—rays to try and kill tumours in the body, but the christie has a particle accelerator, and that means they can fire beams of protons at the cancer. when radiation goes into a ...

Goes through normal healthy tissue and that gives rise to the side effects. protons are being particles, slow down as they enter the tissue, and they stop within the tumour and dont go any further. end tumour and dont go any further. and that means — tumour and dont go any further. and that means that this form of radiotherapy can be used in a really tricky parts of the body. for example. — tricky parts of the body. fe“ example, something like the brainstem, which we know it is very sensit...

And they stop within the tumour and do not go any further. x—rays dont stop and so they damage the healthy tissue both in front and behind the tumour. and that means that this form of radiotherapy can be used in really tricky parts of the body. we can often use protons in cases which would be very difficult to use more conventional treatment where we are going very close to an organ which is radio sensitive. for example, something like the brainstem which we know is very sensitive to radiation...

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And it is called the flash effect. so, you deliver the radiation in a very intense burst to the tumour instead of on several seconds, for example. you condense it in milliseconds. for a physicist, this should not make any difference, but it is like when you deliver radiation like this, the tumour gets damaged, the healthy tissue does not get damaged, and of course it could be game changing because you could forget everything about damaging surrounding tissues, etc, and it is as if the particles ...