Horizon. The 250 million pound cancer cure /
In 2014, five-year-old Ashya King's parents were arrested. Unwilling to accept their son's brain tumour was incurable, they took him to Europe - against doctors' advice - for proton beam therapy. In this treatment, high-energy protons travel at two-thirds the speed of light through a...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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London, England :
BBC Worldwide,
2019.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | In 2014, five-year-old Ashya King's parents were arrested. Unwilling to accept their son's brain tumour was incurable, they took him to Europe - against doctors' advice - for proton beam therapy. In this treatment, high-energy protons travel at two-thirds the speed of light through a patient's body - at millimetre precision. It can transform treatment for children with inoperable cancers. But bringing it to the UK needs a £250 million investment and one of the world's best facilities: a nuclear bunker with six-metre-thick walls to house radioactive equipment. Nearly 2,000 tonnes of kit squeezed into a space the size of four jumbo jets - right under the streets of London and Manchester. Horizon goes behind the scenes of a super-sized engineering challenge. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed January 02, 2020). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (52 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:52:06 |