On 15 September 1992, the TERA Foundation was established in Novara, Italy. Exactly 30 years later, a symposium was held at CERN to review its contributions to hadron therapy

A new facility following the founding principles of CERN begins its design phase

The annual meeting of ENLIGHT, which focuses on particle therapy for cancer treatment, was held in the Netherlands

A new interactive game in Microcosm informs about hadron therapy – come and test it!

PARTNER – an innovative project to train young scientists in aspects of hadron therapy – has proved to be a great success

New software based on CERN's particle simulation toolkit Geant4 is being used to assess radiation doses in cancer treatment

Knowledge gained in developing particle detectors for the LHC has been used to create a dedicated PET device for breast scans

CERN signs a new collaboration agreement with industry to transfer accelerator technology to the medical field

This week, for the first time at the CNAO hadrontherapy centre in Italy, a beam of carbon ions was used to treat a cancer patient