This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features <a href="https://www.npl.co.uk/people/ileana-silvestre-patallo">Ileana Silvestre Patallo</a>, a medical physicist at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory, and <a href="https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/r.mclauchlan">Ruth McLauchlan</a>, consultant radiotherapy physicist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

In a wide-ranging conversation with Physics World’s Tami Freeman, Patallo and McLauchlan explain how ionizing radiation such as X-rays and proton beams interact with our bodies and how radiation is being used to treat diseases including cancer.
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<li>This episode was created in collaboration with <a href="https://www.ipem.ac.uk/">IPEM</a>, the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. IPEM owns the journal <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0031-9155">Physics in Medicine & Biology</a>.</li>
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