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Aug 7, 2007

Particle accelerators: think small

Proton therapy offers a number of advantages over conventional X-ray radiotherapy. Most importantly, protons deliver all of the energy at the end of their path - unlike X-rays. This means they can be "tuned" to dump all of their killing power in the tumour, which considerably reduces the damage incurred by surrounding healthy tissue as well as offering the possibility of upping the dose.

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