New Promising Cancer Treatment

Fifteen-year-old Mason Ketly has a rare brain tumor that doctors found three months ago, and now he is going to receive pioneering cancer treatment at the UK’s first proton beam treatment center.

The proton beam can remove only the tumor and avoid damaging other parts of the brain.

The new center will help 750 people every year, and people plan to open a second one in London next year.

Mason said that the machines were ‘beautiful-looking’ and ‘futuristic’, and he thinks that they will help him ‘really well’. He wants to be a doctor when he grows up.

In 2014, the treatment center was in the news when Ashya King’s parents took him out of a different hospital to take him out of the country to find a hospital that also had proton beam therapy.

Difficult words: tumor (a mass of cells in your body that can become cancer), pioneering (innovative, very new), proton beam (a stream of tiny things called protons that have energy inside them).