Brain and spine
The brainstem runs your breathing and your heartbeat. There is no spare one.
You won't have to lie down for this.
Nearly every radiation machine makes you lie flat inside a tunnel. Ours lets you sit up.
Some people finish in a week.
Standard radiation can mean thirty visits over six weeks. For some cancers the same treatment can be delivered in five — sometimes fewer.
Whether that's you depends on where the tumour is, how much it moves when you breathe, what's sitting next to it, and what treatment you've already had.
A short plan
5Treatment visits
A standard plan
30Weekday visits · six weeks
This isn't a shortcut, and we won't sell it as one. If five visits isn't as safe as thirty, you get thirty.
Is proton right for you?
Sometimes clearly yes. Sometimes it depends. Sometimes no — and you deserve to hear which one before you get on a plane.
Usually worth askingWhen something precious is sitting right next to the tumourThe brainstem. An optic nerve. A child's growing spine. An area that has already had all the radiation it can take. This is where protons earn their reputation.
- Cancers in children
- Brain and skull base
- Head and neck
- Eye and orbit
- Spine and sacrum
- Liver cancer
- Mediastinal lymphoma and thymoma
- Selected left breast cancers
- Repeat radiation with little margin left
It depends on your scanWhen the answer is in the detailHere the real question isn't proton versus X-ray in general. It's whether your proton plan protects your organs better than your X-ray plan. We build both and show you.
- Lung
- Oesophagus
- Pancreas
- Prostate
- Cervix and selected gynaecological cancers
- Sarcoma
- Rectal re-irradiation
- Selected oligometastatic disease
Ask us to compareWhen proton may not add muchFor plenty of common cancers, modern X-ray treatment is just as good. Newer doesn't automatically mean better, and we'll say so.
- Compare proton with modern X-ray treatment
- Review before travel or booking
- A clear recommendation, including when proton is not advised
These are reasons to have your case looked at, not a promise you'll be treated here. A doctor with a name makes the final call.
If protons aren't better for you, we'll tell you.
A proton machine is an expensive thing to keep busy. Which is exactly why we're putting this in writing.
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We read everything
Diagnosis, scans, pathology, and whatever treatment you've already had.
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We build both plans
Yours on protons and yours on modern X-ray, side by side, on your own anatomy.
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We tell you which one wins
It might be proton. It might be surgery, drugs, a different hospital, or no radiation at all.
Before you travel. Before you pay.
The beam holds still. The chair does the work.
In a normal proton room a machine the size of a house rotates around you. Here the beam stays put and a robotic chair turns you into position instead — which is how the whole thing fits into a building this size.
The system is made by P-Cure. It can treat you sitting or lying down, scan you in the exact position you'll be treated in, and flag it when your body has changed enough to need a new plan.
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Sit up, or lie down
Your team chooses whichever is safer for your plan. If you're in pain, short of breath, or you've ever panicked inside a scanner, sitting up changes the whole day.
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We check you're in the right place
A scan in the chair, every session, before anything switches on.
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We check the plan still fits
Bodies change during treatment. When yours does, a physicist redoes the maths and signs it off.
Where this comes from
These are P-Cure's own documents. They describe what the system is built to do — not what we've done with it, which so far is nothing.
Proton vs X-ray
Proton beamEnergy deposition
Target depth 16.0 cm
Beam entrance →Beyond target
Tumour
ProtonX-ray
DoseDepth in tissueTumour depth16.0 cm
Beam energy152 MeV
Proton dose past the targetMinimal
Share of X-ray dose past the target30%
Everything a beam passes through, it damages.
X-ray
An X-ray beam gives up its energy the whole way through you: going in, at the tumour, and out the back.
Proton
A proton beam saves most of its energy for one depth, delivers it there, and stops. Behind that point, almost nothing.
The tissue behind your tumour is the tissue you get to keep.
William Bragg worked this out in 1904. The first patient was treated in 1954. None of this is experimental.
How the beam covers a tumour
DoseDepth in tissue
Energy layers12 / 12
Beam energies147–177 MeV
Dose across the tumourFlat
Dose past the targetMinimal
What you don't irradiate still has to work.
Which matters most when something you can't replace is sitting right next to the target.
Eye and optic nerve
A few millimetres decide whether you keep your sight.
Head and neck
Salivary glands and swallowing muscles. Lose these and eating stops being ordinary.
Children
A child treated at six has seventy years of tissue ahead of them.
Your body changes. So does the plan.
01
Tumours shrink. You lose weight. Organs shift. Six weeks is a long time in a body.
02
So we scan you in the treatment position at every session, and hold today's anatomy against the plan we approved.
03
If it's drifted enough to matter, your oncologist and a physicist rebuild the plan before the beam turns on.
The machine measures. People decide.
- Image
We capture your anatomy at the treatment machine.
- Compare
Today's scan is held against the plan we approved.
- Approve
A medical physicist reviews and signs any change.
Start with the question. Not the booking.
Tell us the diagnosis, the treatment you're on, and the one thing you most want answered. Don't send scans or reports here — we'll explain the secure way to do that.