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15-year-old to be treated at The Christie hospital
A 15-year-old boy with a rare brain cancer is set to become one of the first UK patients to have proton-beam therapy at Manchester's Christie hospital.
Mason Kettley, from Angmering, West Sussex, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in October. NHS England has now revealed that he is starting Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) treatment at the £125 million centre.
The Christie’s Proton Beam centre is the newest and most up to date centre in the world, with PBT a specialist form of radiotherapy that targets cancers very precisely, increasing success rates and reducing side effects, which makes it an ideal treatment for certain cancers in children who are at risk of lasting damage to organs that are still growing.
Stephen Powis, medical director for the NHS in England said: “This is a hugely exciting development for the NHS and we are delighted that we are able to provide this life changing treatment for patients like Mason. The long term plan for the NHS last week set out a range of plans that will radically transform cancer care across the country, benefitting hundreds of thousands of patients in the next five years.”
The NHS England-funded centre opened last year and is the first NHS treatment centre in England. A second is due to open at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in summer 2020.
Mason is one of the first patients to undergo proton beam therapy on the NHS in England following the completion of the £125 million centre last year. The first patient, who is still undergoing treatment, did not want publicity.
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