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How does proton beam therapy treat cancer? – with Simon Jolly
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An advanced form of radiotherapy, proton beam therapy enables tumours to be targeted with greater precision, reducing the collateral damage to surrounding healthy tissue. Physicist Simon Jolly sheds light on this leading-edge technique and the technology needed to deliver it.
This talk was recorded from our theatre at the Royal Institution on 12 October 2018. Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8YnQkUWTS64
Please leave this episode a rating and a review to let us know what you think, and to help more people discover the podcast.
- Get tickets for upcoming talks and livestreams: www.rigb.org/whats-on
- Twitter: twitter.com/Ri_Science
- YouTube: youtube.com/TheRoyalInstitution
- Patreon: patreon.com/TheRoyalInstitution
Music by: Joseph Sandy
Thumbnail image credit: Howard Vindin via Wikimedia Commons | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Depth_Coded_Phalloidin_Stained_Actin_Filaments_Cancer_Cell.png
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Manage episode 347619476 series 1264732
An advanced form of radiotherapy, proton beam therapy enables tumours to be targeted with greater precision, reducing the collateral damage to surrounding healthy tissue. Physicist Simon Jolly sheds light on this leading-edge technique and the technology needed to deliver it.
This talk was recorded from our theatre at the Royal Institution on 12 October 2018. Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8YnQkUWTS64
Please leave this episode a rating and a review to let us know what you think, and to help more people discover the podcast.
- Get tickets for upcoming talks and livestreams: www.rigb.org/whats-on
- Twitter: twitter.com/Ri_Science
- YouTube: youtube.com/TheRoyalInstitution
- Patreon: patreon.com/TheRoyalInstitution
Music by: Joseph Sandy
Thumbnail image credit: Howard Vindin via Wikimedia Commons | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Depth_Coded_Phalloidin_Stained_Actin_Filaments_Cancer_Cell.png
89 afleveringen
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