Proton beam therapy

In today's episode, Dr Indrani Bhattacharya introduces proton beam therapy. This technique is in its infancy in the UK, with The Christie NHS Trust in Manchester and University College London Hospital building the first proton beam therapy centre as a part of their hospitals' radiotherapy services and to serve the entire UK population. With all this new research being prepared, we want to know what this means for radiotherapy practice in the near future. Amy, our patient representative, shares her experiences of radiotherapy and asks how proton beam therapy might have impacted upon her treatment pathway. Indrani is a Clinical Oncology Consultant at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK, specialising in breast cancer. She has expertise in technical breast radiotherapy and clinical trials radiotherapy quality assurance, as well as delivery of systemic therapies for breast cancer patients. She is also the Principal Investigator for PARABLE, a recently-opened proton beam therapy clinical trial.