Topic: Future cancer treatment using antiparticles from the exotic "antiworld"

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An international research team has taken the first, but nevertheless promising step towards a new form of radiotherapy for cancer. This team includes scientists at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the University of Aarhus, as well as the Department of Medical Physics and the Department of Experimental Clinical Oncology, the Aarhus University Hospital. In an experiment at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), located near Geneva, the scientists have demonstrated that a beam of antiprotons can destroy cancer cells considerably more effectively than the types of radiation used to date. In the long term, this can lead to a more effective and more gentle treatment for certain tumours.

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I can well imagine that producing antiprotons is expensive. I wonder what kind of antiproton fluxes are involved for this kind of therapy

I also wonder how much of the destructive effect is due to radiation, e.g. gamma rays, produced by the particle annihilation. Offhand I imagine that the higher the radiation production by annihilation, the less localized the destruction would be.

It's exciting when the world of high energy physics comes into contact with the world of medicine.