• Question: How do you think the radiation from the accelerators will benefit cancer?

    Asked by smallamyxx to Mike, Pip, Tim, Tom on 4 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      I know that radiotherapy is commonly used to treat cancer (and is done using linear accelerators).
      I think you probably wanted an answer from Mike though?

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      There’s also accelerators like the Diamond Light Source that’s a synchrotron near Oxford. This is used as a really bright light source to make X-Rays, light, and other types of electromagnetic radiation and the researchers there do all sorts of work, which I’m sure involves trying to understand cancer better.
      Check out http://insidediamond.org where they’ve got lots of interesting information about what they do there. 🙂

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