Podcast: How does proton beam therapy treat cancer? – with Simon Jolly

Physicist Simon Jolly explains proton beam therapy, an advanced form of radiotherapy for cancer treatment.

Listen time: 1:08:07
Purple-coloured cancer cells in a lung.
Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

Proton beam therapy enables tumours to be targeted with greater precision, reducing the collateral damage to surrounding healthy tissue. Simon Jolly sheds light on this leading-edge technique and the technology needed to deliver it.

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This talk was recorded from our theatre at the Royal Institution on 12 October 2018.