The future of fighting cancer: Zapping tumors in less than a second
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 13:10
in Health & Medicine
New accelerator-based technology being developed by the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University aims to reduce the side effects of cancer radiation therapy by shrinking its duration from minutes to under a second. Built into future compact medical devices, technology developed for high-energy physics could also help make radiation therapy more accessible around the world.