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The group of Professor at the University of Murcia Rafael Garcia Molina develops research that aims to improve the effectiveness of hadronterapia, an emerging technique that treats cancerous tumors with beams of protons and ions.
These cancer treatments using proton beams emerge as an alternative to radiation therapy using ionizing radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors, so you need to maximize the dose applied to the region of the tumor without irradiating the surrounding tissue .
Although in recent decades have developed techniques that use high-precision multi-beam intensity modulated radiotherapy with (which uses beams of photons and electrons) always applies an unavoidable dose to healthy tissue.
The heavy charged particles used hadronterapia (protons and other ions) to a dose distribution in tissues more precisely what constitutes its main advantage over traditional radiation therapy.
Garcia Molina's research and his team focuses on understanding the physical processes involved in the interaction of the proton beam with biological materials, a key aspect to improve the effectiveness of irradiation hadronterapia and control of malignant cells and healthy ones.
The work, developed in collaboration with the University of Alicante and University of Ioannina, Greece, has been published on the website medicalphysicsweb.org, Institute of Physics of Great Britain.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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