Thought Leadership
A TURNING POINT FOR PROTON THERAPY
Stephen Towe*, CEO of Leo Cancer Care, discusses how new landmark partnerships for upright units are changing the proton therapy landscape for good.
Think Particle therapy is out of reach? Think again.
something smaller making the future bigger
By removing the need for large and complex rotating gantries and instead introducing slow patient rotation, our Marie Particle Therapy solution will make treatment rooms significantly smaller. Reducing the need for costly shielding, construction and technology means we can make Particle Therapy more accessible and affordable than ever before.
Simply rotating the lighter object
We are working hard to make our products more streamlined than existing radiation therapy machines, by reducing the materials needed to build, run and service these machines. By streamlining our solutions we can reduce the need for costly construction work and install our radiation therapy machines into existing treatment rooms, even LINAC bunkers.
Reducing construction and materials required
We believe that healthcare technologies should be built to meet the needs of the economics of the future, whilst also reducing their impact on the environment, this way we can make healthcare more sustainable. We are striving to make more sustainable radiation therapy technologies by reducing construction and materials required to deliver radiation therapy, as well as how we support our local and global communities and our plans for the future.
Changing Particle Therapy for Good
Simply Rotating the Lighter Object
Today, centers looking to introduce particle therapy treatments, are recognizing the benefits of this concept, which has the potential to make particle therapy more effective, more accessible and much more patient friendly.
Rotating the lighter object, the patient, is logical – after all, if you need to change a lightbulb, you don’t hold the lightbulb and rotate the house. It always makes sense to rotate the lighter object. We’re applying that simple concept to modern radiation therapy by rotating, for example, a 100lb patient instead of a 100-tonne gantry.
