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Proton beam therapy to treat children with brain cancer will be available in the UK by 2018, NHS experts say.
The confirmation follows controversy about Ashya King, a five-year-old with a brain tumour, whose parents took him to the Czech Republic for the therapy
Dr Adrian Crellin, of NHS England, said clinics in Manchester and London would treat their first patients in 2018.
And some children with medulloblastoma tumours - the type of cancer Ashya has - could be offered therapy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29140876
The confirmation follows controversy about Ashya King, a five-year-old with a brain tumour, whose parents took him to the Czech Republic for the therapy
Dr Adrian Crellin, of NHS England, said clinics in Manchester and London would treat their first patients in 2018.
And some children with medulloblastoma tumours - the type of cancer Ashya has - could be offered therapy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29140876