• Question: what types of cancer do you contrate of destroying?

    Asked by midnight to Leila, Jim on 15 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Jim O Doherty

      Jim O Doherty answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      We concentrate mainly on tumours called “neuro-endocrine” tumours, so they have certain characteristics that we can develop chemistry for so we can see them on our special scanners, and so we can made medicines to treat them

    • Photo: Leila Nichol

      Leila Nichol answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      We do all kinds here, We use high energy X-rays to treat most cancers, mainly breast, prostate, lung, head&neck, but everything really, we use lower energy X-rays to treat things at the surface like skin lesions, then we also do brachytherapy which uses radioactive sources implanted close to or inside the tumour to release a high localised dose.

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