Medical Physics

尽管越来越多的加拿大人在确诊后至少存活了五年，但癌症仍然是加拿大的主要死亡原因，预计约30%的加拿大人将死于癌症。两种新的放射治疗方式，闪光治疗和微束治疗，在改善癌症放射治疗结果方面显示出希望。不幸的是，需要高度专业、昂贵的机器来进行测试和临床实施。我建议建造和测试三个辐射闪光/微束平台，这将成为科学家深入研究这些技术的理想环境，这将加速它们的临床应用。

Although increasingly Canadians are surviving at least five years past their diagnosis, cancer continues to be the leading cause of death in Canada and about 30% of Canadians are expected to die from cancer. Two novel radiotherapy treatment modalities, FLASH therapy and therapy delivered with microbeams, have shown promise in improving outcomes of cancer radiotherapy. Unfortunately, highly specialized, expensive machines are needed for their testing and clinical implementation. I propose to build and test three irradiation FLASH/microbeam platforms that will serve as an ideal environment for scientists to thoroughly investigate these techniques, which will accelerate their clinical translation.