Scientists have found a way to kill cancer in seconds

New technology helps reduce radiation time and is highly effective compared to traditional cancer treatments.

The US National Acceleration Laboratory (SLAC), run by Stanford University, is developing a new type of accelerating technology to reduce the side effects of radiation therapy, by shortening the duration of irradiation sessions from several minutes down to a few seconds.

The representative of SLAC said it received funding to implement two projects to study the treatment of tumors using X-rays and using protons.

The idea behind it is for cancer cells to disappear so quickly that organs and other tissues do not have time to move during exposure. This reduces the risk of radiation attacking and damaging healthy tissue around tumors, making radiation therapy more accurate.

The new method can help radiotherapy shorten the time from a few minutes to a few seconds.

'Using a light beam in less than a few seconds in a therapy session will be the optimal way to manage the continuous movements of organs and tissues. This is a big improvement over the methods we are using , 'said Billy Loo, associate professor of radiation oncology at Stanford School of Medicine.

Sami Tantawi, a professor of physics at SLAC, said that to provide a high-intensity radiation effectively enough, the new acceleration structure he and his colleagues studied in two projects needed to be stronger than the Hundreds of current technologies.'Funding will help us build these structures,' he added.

The above project is called PHASER . Its focus is on developing a flash distribution system for X-rays.

In medical devices used today, electrons will fly through an accelerating structure made up of a 1 m long tube, collecting energy from a radio frequency field passing through the tube at the same time. points and in the same direction. The energy of the electrons is then converted into X-rays.

In the last few years, the PHASER team has developed and tested new accelerating structures to bring radio frequency fields into the tube.

'Next, we will build accelerated structures and test the risks of technology. In the next 3 to 5 years, this study could produce the first practical device that could be used in clinical trials , 'Tantawi said.

With the new treatment, radiotherapy will last two to three sessions before the patient is switched to recovery mode.