{"id":85392,"date":"2018-12-02T12:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T20:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/proton-beam-failure-leaves-hundreds-of-child-cancer-patients-at-risk"},"modified":"2018-12-02T12:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T20:42:22","slug":"proton-beam-failure-leaves-hundreds-of-child-cancer-patients-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/proton-beam-failure-leaves-hundreds-of-child-cancer-patients-at-risk","title":{"rendered":"Proton beam failure leaves hundreds of child cancer patients at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/proton-beam-failure-leaves-hundreds-of-child-cancer-patients-at-risk.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of children with cancer are resorting to inferior treatment because of a failure to open two flagship specialist centres, experts have warned.<\/p>\n<p>NHS officials have admitted that no patient has yet received<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/05\/20\/uk-get-first-proton-therapy-centre-ashya-kings-plight-raised\/\"> state-of-the-art proton beam therapy<\/a> (PBT) at either its new London or Manchester sites, despite a Government pledge to be treating 1,500 a year by 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Leading oncologists have called for transparency after two promised opening dates at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust were missed this year and the deadline quietly pushed back.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/12\/02\/proton-beam-failure-leaves-hundreds-child-cancer-patients-risk\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/12\/02\/proton-beam-fail...ents-risk\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of children with cancer are resorting to inferior treatment because of a failure to open two flagship specialist centres, experts have warned. NHS officials have admitted that no patient has yet received state-of-the-art proton beam therapy (PBT) at either its new London or Manchester sites, despite a Government pledge to be treating 1,500 a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}