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Welsh cancer patients to receive proton beam therapy
Cancer patients in Wales are set to begin receiving proton therapy treatment on the NHS after the Rutherford Cancer Centre South Wales was given the green light.
Having been offering the treatment to private patients since it opened in April, the Newport-based centre is expected to begin treating NHS patients immediately after the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee gave it the go ahead to accept patients referred through NHS Wales.
Following the Christie cancer centre in Manchester, the Rutherford Cancer Centre South Wales is now the second in the UK to allow NHS proton beam therapy, with The Christie expected to give the treatment to a cancer patient in England next week for the first time.
Roger Taylor, at the Rutherford centre, said: "Proton therapy is not a panacea for all types of cancer, however we have seen where it can be beneficial in areas such as brain tumours or cancers of the spine or head and neck, and working with the NHS means that adult patients in Wales will now have an option to be treated closer to home."
Wales' Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said: "It is good to see government, health service and industry collaborating for the benefit of patients in Wales and to make an important contribution to the life sciences sector, which is an area of strength for Wales."
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