HADRON 2017

Session

Public session

27 Sept 2017, 19:30

Salamanca, Spain

289. Hadrontherapy: an innovative technique to fight cancer

Prof. Alejandro Mazal (Centre de protonthérapie (Orsay) - Institut Curie)

27/09/2017, 19:30

Talk

This session, open to the non-expert public, introduces physical and clinical aspects of hadrontherapy, as an example on how basic investigation may produce applied results.
In contrast with conventional X-ray radiotherapy, where energy is continuously deposited before reaching the tumor, in hadrontherapy the majority of this energy is deposited in single point, thus avoiding damage in the...