Anti-matter therapy for cancer

Well who could have thought of this!!! Anti-matter, that has been at the core of volumes of recent research in physics, has found its way into medical science and therapy. Recent announcements by CERN lab in Geneva have hinted at the idea of using anti-matter to target cancer cells resulting in intense biological damage of the cancerous cells leading to their death.

In fact, particle physics is already playing a role in cancer treatment today. Radiotherapy for cancer results in exposure of some non-cancerous parts of the body to harmful radiation. Applications from particle physics help reduce this collateral radiation by a significant amount.