France, May 22 -- The aim is ambitious: to build, a FLASH radiotherapy platform using very-high-energy electrons, known as VHEE at Institut Curie's Orsay site near Paris. By 2029, this one-of-a-kind facility is expected to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of this approach before it can be used to treat patients with cancers carrying a particularly poor prognosis.Discovered in 2014 in Institut Curie's laboratories, FLASH radiotherapy makes it possible to deliver highly intense, targeted radiation in less than a second, destroying cancer cells while very largely sparing healthy tissue. As current technologies struggle to reach deep-seated tumours, FRATHEA aims to overcome this limitation by combining the FLASH effect with electrons in the ...