Flash radiation could mean cancer treatment in seconds, not weeks

Radiation therapy is traditionally delivered in small doses over weeks so it can efficiently kill tumor cells while being less toxic to surrounding healthy tissue, said Constantinos Koumenis, a professor of radiation biology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine.

But as many radiation patients can attest, treatments still do plenty of damage to normal tissue.

Instead, Koumenis and dozens of other research teams have been testing “flash radiation,” which uses ultra-high dose rate beams of energy to zap tumor cells. Patients might get the same amount of radiation in just two to four sessions of less than 1 second each.

“The vulnerability of the tumor cells is essentially the same,” Koumenis said. “What’s different is the normal tissue is more resistant to the flash radiation.”More information – https://oncologyandcancerresearch.blogspot.com/

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