Medical and Healthcare: Full beam ahead for new cancer therapy - UK patients could benefit from development of technology

摘要

Two UK hospitals are to launch a procurement competition for particle beam cancer therapy technology after securing ￡250m of funding from the Department of Health (DoH). By 2017 it is hoped that around 1,500 cancer patients - many of them children - will benefit from the treatment at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust and the Christie NHS Foundation Trust hospital in Manchester.