Coincidentally, physicist Sabine Hossenfelder published on YT just hours ago about a new treatment - "proton flashes".
> one of the most common ways to treat cancer is radiation therapy with x-rays ... You can use these highly energetic photons to kill off cancer cells. The difficulty really is ... killing the cancer cells without killing the patient - but the problem with using x-rays is that you can't shoot them at tumors inside the body without also burning some of the tissue on the way to the tumor and behind it... But you can use beams of other particles instead and this is where particle physics enters ... A beam of protons is far less likely to interact with tissue on short distances
And it is still part of the "kinder" set (protons are "kinder" than x-rays).
New Cancer Treatment With Proton Flashes Goes on Trial
> one of the most common ways to treat cancer is radiation therapy with x-rays ... You can use these highly energetic photons to kill off cancer cells. The difficulty really is ... killing the cancer cells without killing the patient - but the problem with using x-rays is that you can't shoot them at tumors inside the body without also burning some of the tissue on the way to the tumor and behind it... But you can use beams of other particles instead and this is where particle physics enters ... A beam of protons is far less likely to interact with tissue on short distances
And it is still part of the "kinder" set (protons are "kinder" than x-rays).
New Cancer Treatment With Proton Flashes Goes on Trial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K515uMQQzV4