Why my baby look like a naked mole rat?

I would eat those cookies.

And he would have been released in 12 years anyway, and we would not have gotten anything for his release. This way we got an American citizen back.

He only had a 25 year sentence and was about halfway through it.

This looks like a page from my high school yearbook. Made me double take.

Hence the use of the word gullible.

You are correct that you're totally wrong. We don't vary the angles over time, we just select a large number of angles. Basic idea, if you shot from just one angle, all the tissue on the entrance path would be getting more dose than the tumor. If you shot through 10 different angles for a single treatment, than each entrance path through normal tissue would be getting only 10% of the dose, but where they all overlap at the tumor, it's getting 100% of the dose. This treatment with the 10 angles (usually actually only 5, 7, or 9 for static IMRT) would be given every day for 5-8 weeks in conventional radiotherapy using those same angles for each daily treatment.

The evolution of this is having the gantry rotate constantly through the treatment, varying the dose rate and shape of the beam during the rotation to avoid dose to especially sensitive tissues, while making sure you completely cover the target. So instead of 10 (or 5 or 7) discrete angles you have the maximal spread of the entrance dose. It's called VMAT, volumetric modulated arc therapy.

Amount of people dying of cancer went down despite people continuing with behavior that increases cancer like smoking, being overweight, not eating enough fruits and vegetables, and eating too much processed meat.

We're better at detecting it now, and better at treating it.

Also people overly hype mouse trials to get funding, but humans are not mice. The results frequently don't translate well.

You are correct. The whole point is delivering it all at once so you get the FLASH effect. Different radiobiological mechanism than traditional fractionated radiotherapy.

Dose rate, and all delivered in a single pulse.

The FLASH studies have shown the lower side effects by using a single pulse, so the idea when putting this into clinical practice would be a single shot. Obviously no fractionation, as this isn't relying on the 5 R's. It's relying on a transient radiation-induced hypoxia that affects tumor cells more as they're already hypoxic.

For clinical treatment they would be looking at multiple treatment head gantries so the tumor could be shot from multiple angles at once in a single pulse so that you get the benefit of the FLASH effect that this treatment relies on.

I was looking in the article to see whether it was a photon or proton based system, since you can do FLASH with both, but I must have missed it. I understand it's not intended for limbs. We already do palliative treatments in one fraction with little to no side effects.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8185194/#:~:text=FLASH%20radiotherapy%20(FLASH%2DRT)%20is%20a%20novel%20radiotherapy%20technology,conventional%20irradiation%20(%20Figure%201%20).

This is interesting, but we don't usually see any side effects when treating bone mets in the limbs as the surrounding tissue isn't all that radiosensitive. The next study will tell us a lot more.