Sunday, March 23, 2008

Zapping Cancer Cells with Accuracy

Put in the eyes. Take out the spinal cord. Rotate his head. For cancer specialist Dr G. Selvaratnam and his team of medical experts, these are daily preoccupations.

They twist and turn a patient's vital organs, studying the whole make-up from every imaginable direction to pinpoint the exact location of cancer cells.

It's a procedure even the faint-hearted would appreciate because it's done virtually.

The gadget which makes this and much more possible, is the RM14-million Trilogy Linear Accelerator (TLA) , which sits behind six-inch walls in the NCI Cancer Hospital in Nilai, Negri Sembilan.

article at: NST Online

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