A first patient has been treated with radiation delivered in a flash

At Penn Medicine, a patient has become the first person treated in the C-FLASH-01 trial of ConformalFLASH proton therapy — a technique that pairs the precision of proton beams with ultra-high dose rates, aiming to hit tumours hard while sparing healthy tissue. The feasibility study, sponsored by Belgium's IBA and cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration, focuses on people with head and neck cancer who need a second course of radiation, where options are few.

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