2023-06-15 08:30:09
A little over a month following his last radiotherapy session, Didier Nicoux, a 66-year-old Aptésien, is doing wonderfully. “Today, it’s fine!”, He declares, smiling, in front of the fifty caregivers gathered in the amphitheater of the Sainte-Catherine cancer institute, in Avignon. This Wednesday, June 14, almost all of the seats is occupied by doctors, physicists and manipulators experts in radiotherapy eager for details on Ethos, “a revolutionary cancer treatment machine”, according to Catherine Khamphan, medical physicist in charge of the project.Cancer Center of Excellence founded in 1946, Sainte-Catherine uses radiotherapy to treat 3,100 patients per year (which represents 55,000 s
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