Magic surgerical knife, cancer therapy without surgerical operation realized by laser accelerated proton beams

Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Tsuchida, Noboru

Proton and heavy ion cancer therapy which are without surgerical operation are now paid attention to. In this therapy, no surgerical operation is needed, nor the patients have treatment without pain. However, the machine for the therapy is very large in both cost and size. At this moment, the institutions where the patients can be treated by this therapy are only 6 in Japan. In JAEA, we are now carrying out the investigation to make this machine for the therapy compact in size and costs by using high intensity laser.