Unlocking novel radiation beams for cancer treatment with upright patient positioning

Since the beginning of radiation therapy, almost all treatments have been delivered with the patient lying on a table while the beam rotates around them. But a resurgence in upright patient positioning is changing that paradigm. Novel radiation accelerators such as proton therapy, VHEE, and FLASH therapy are often too large to rotate around the patient, making access limited. By instead rotating the patient, these previously hard-to-access beams could now become mainstream in the future. Join leading clinicians and experts as they discuss how this shift in patient positioning is enabling exploration of new treatment geometries and supporting the development of advanced future cancer therapies. L-R Serdar Charyyev, Eric Deutsch, Bill Loo, Rock Mackie Novel beams covered and their representative speaker Serdar Charyyev – Proton Therapy – Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine Eric Deutsch – VHEE FLASH – Head of Radiotherapy at Gustave Roussy Bill Loo – FLASH Photons – Professor of Radiation Oncology at Stanford Medicine Rock Mackie – Emeritus Professor at University of Wisconsin and Co-Founder and Chairman of Leo Cancer Care The post Unlocking novel radiation beams for cancer treatment with upright patient positioning appeared first on Physics World.