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The ultra-fast cancer treatments which could replace conventional radiotherapy
A pioneering new treatment promises to tackle a wider range of cancers, with fewer side-effects than conventional radiotherapy. It also takes less than a second.
Billy Loo, a professor of radiation oncology who runs the Flash sciences lab at Stanford University School of Medicine in the US, explains that tumours, especially those of larger volume, are rarely neatly segregated from the surrounding tissue. Following on from the University of Cincinnati trial, oncologists are also hopeful that Flash machines could improve the treatment of various forms of metastatic disease (where the cancer has spread from its primary location) and actually cure patients who were previously considered incurable. As a result, the International Cancer Expert Corps (ICEC) have launched an initiative called Project Stella, in partnership with Cern and several UK universities, which aims to develop next-generation accelerators with integrated software that can predict faults in advance and streamline maintenance, enabling countries to make the best use of the machines they have by minimising downtime.
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