The rush for protons

• Autores: Steve Connor
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3078, 2016, págs. 18-19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In Aug 2014, the British public were gripped by the story of Ashya King, a five-year-old boy who had a form of brain cancer called medulloblastoma. He was removed from hospital by his parents without the consent or knowledge of his doctors. An international hunt was sparked when it was realized they had taken Ashya abroad in the hope of getting him high-energy proton beam therapy, a type of radiotherapy unavailable in the UK. Here, Connor investigates whether a proton beam radiotherapy been prematurely cast as a game-changing cancer treatment.