BBCNEWS Click June 4, 2024 19:38:00
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 would know "this is a healthy cell, "this is a cancer cell." do we have any idea why it happens? we ...