The Gazette, May 31st 2011 -- The McGill University Health Centre's new Glen campus will be equipped with eight "cancer bunkers" buried partially underground in the hospital's cancer centre, at the eastern end of the site.
These rooms, each eight metres by eight metres, will house large, sophisticated machines that use targeted ionizing radiation to destroy cancer cells in a patient's body. The treatment, commonly known as radiotherapy, involves aiming radiation beams at a tumour from several angles, explained William Parker, a medical physicist at the MUHC.
