This is especially critical for the treatment of brain cancer. Current treatment often results in damage to the brain that could lead to retardation.
The former head of the NCCS, Professor Soo Khee Chee, had said that using proton beams drops the risk of retardation by more than half and "significantly reduces" side effects, such as getting secondary cancers.
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