Christie short-listed for pioneering role

Manchester’s Christie’s hospital could start providing a treatment currently unavailable in the UK.

During a visit to the hospital, Lib-Dem Care Minister Paul Burstow announced Christie has made the final shortlist to be a Centre of Excellence providing high beam proton therapy. Proton therapy uses a beam of protons to irradiate diseased tissue, most often in the treatment of eye cancers. Unlike X-rays, proton beams deliver energy to the centre of a tumour and reduce damage to surrounding, healthy tissue.

Manchester Withington MP John Leech said: “The Minister was impressed by the quality of the care provided by Christie’s, and I am extremely confident that Christie’s will be one of these Centres of Excellence.”