At Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, the doctors administering proton therapy to cancer patients are striving for more effective ways of drawing up treatment plans. For help, they are looking to mathematics in a new approach called multicriteria treatment planning. In this short film, Physics World visits the MGH to meet the researchers and doctors who are pioneering this new initiative.
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