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Horizon. The 250 million pound cancer cure / produced & directed by Annie Mackinder ; BBC Studios, the Science Unit.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Proton beams--Therapeutic use--England.
- Proton beams.
- Brain--Tumors--Treatment--England.
- Brain.
- Cancer--Treatment--England.
- Cancer.
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (52 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Proton beam
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : BBC Worldwide, 2019.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- 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.
- Participant:
- Narrator: Lorraine Ashbourne.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed January 02, 2020).
- OCLC:
- 1135592132
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