Source: www.ctvnews.ca Author: Jackie Vandinther, Digital Content Editor In the last three years, David Hutson has beaten both throat and skin cancer. Now he’s hoping a new form of radiation treatment will help him overcome the prostate cancer he was diagnosed with last September. Hutson is the first patient in the world to experiment with a new cancer-killing technology called MR-Linac. Radiologists from the Christie Hospital Manchester in the United Kingdom help cancer patient David Hutson out of the MR-Linac radiation machine in Manchester, U.K. in May 2019 Patient David Hutson receives radiation treatment for his prostate cancer using an MR-Linac machine at the Christie Hospital Manchester in Manchester, the United Kingdom in May 2019. (ITN) "I feel very lucky indeed that I'm having this treatment. I feel very confident in this technology,” he says from the Christie Hospital Manchester in the United Kingdom. "And from my diagnosis, it's going to help me to defeat this third bout of cancer." Normally, radiotherapy is carried out in two stages. First, a scan of the tumour is made. Then a dose of radiation is delivered. Part MRI scanner and part radiation machine, the MR-Linac allows doctors to do both tasks at once; they can visualize the tumour in real time while beaming high-energy radiation to the area. The result is on-the-spot imaging and targeted treatment in one shot. Because doctors can give more precise and intense doses of radiation, the groundbreaking technology could treat cancers with unprecedented safety [...]