PENCIL BEAM SCANNING TECHNOLOGY TAKES PROTON THERAPY SERVICES FOR KOREAN CANCER PATIENTS ANOTHER STEP FORWARD

Korea’s National Cancer Center (NCC) has taken proton therapy services in the Asia Pacific region to the next level with the recent installation and deployment of the Pencil Beam Scanning (PBS) delivery modality. On 22 September, PBS treatment was initiated for the first cancer patient to benefit from the superior precision of this delivery technique in Korea.

“Cancer being one of the primary health concerns in Korea, access to state-of-the-art treatment modalities is imperative for us. We have been anticipating PBS for a while now. It is exciting to know that our proton therapy treatments will not only gain in accuracy, but that we will also be able to open up our proton therapy facilities to a widening group of patients,” says Dr. Se Byeong Lee, Chief Medical Physicist at the National Cancer Center of Korea.