• By Adam Frucci
    Feb 19, 2009 7:00 PM 11,276
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    Get Your Cancer Zapped by a Gigantic, Proton-Spewing Cyclotron

    If bigger equals better, than Varian Medical System's Cyclotron, designed to administer proton therapy, is the best damned cancer-killing machine ever built. The device is a 250 mega-electron volt proton accelerator, and it's so large that it requires its own building. It's designed to very precisely target tumors for radiation therapy, as protons have a "much shorter and predictable range of energy delivery than photons." I'm not sure I fully understand it, but it sure does look impressive, doesn't it? [Varian via Medgadget]


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