Hadassah performs world's first alpha radiation treatment for recurrent brain cancer

In Jerusalem, medicine crossed a threshold long imagined but never before attempted: a 77-year-old man became the first human being to receive alpha particle radiation delivered directly into a brain tumor, a disease that has resisted nearly every intervention modern oncology has offered. Glioblastoma, which claims most of its patients within a year and a half, has long represented one of medicine's most humbling frontiers — and at Hadassah Medical Center, a technology called Alpha DaRT has now opened a door that was previously sealed. The moment belongs not only to one patient, but to the qui