A Cancer-curing Machine
The seventh cancer - curing machine has recently been developed in Yonsei hospital, South Korea. The machine, called an accelerator, works by firing a laser that goes inside the patient ’ s body and destroys the cancer cells. This accelerator has a diameter of twenty metres and a height of 1 metre, through which it accelerates a heavy ion ray to close to the speed of light. This ion ray uses carbon particles to only destroy cancer cells and if you are wondering what a heavy ion ray, is it is a heavy ion beam which means a beam
beam" indicates a nucleus (heavy ion) beam of any atom that is heavier than helium or has an atomic number larger than that of helium. This ion ray is super safe as it kills cancer cells with ultra - precision, so there is minimal effect on surrounding normal cells. This would mean there would be fewer side effects because the energy is released
by focusing on the tumour at a certain depth, and there is no energy behind it. The only difficult type of cancer to cure with this machine is blood cancer and metastatic cancer, which is when the cancer is spread all across the body.
Minjun Jee
of any particles that are heavier than electrons. In Japanese heavy ion radiotherapy, the term "heavy ion
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