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Particle therapy

Particle therapy

Damage limitation

02 Aug 2010

Treating cancerous tumours using beams of hadrons allows a more targeted approach than using X-rays, thus speeding up treatment and reducing the irradiation of disease-free tissue. John Gordon explains why this “particle therapy” deserves to be a mainstream healthcare option

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John Gordon is product director at Pyramid Technical Consultants, Inc., Lexington, MA, US, which supplies diagnostic equipment and control systems for beamlines, including those used for particle-therapy beamlines
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