Manchester gets UK's first high-energy proton beam cancer therapy machine

Ninety-tonne cyclotron at Christie hospital will give NHS patients access to treatment that is currently only available abroad

A 90-tonne machine that will allow cancer patients to receive state-of-the-art high-energy proton beam therapy on the NHS for the first time is to be installed at a hospital in Manchester.

The cyclotron delivers a special type of radiotherapy currently only available overseas. The NHS has been paying for patients to travel abroad for the treatment since 2008.