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(American Institute of Physics) Proton therapy -- which uses beams of the subatomic particles to treat cancer -- is a hot topic at this year's American Association of Physicists in Medicine meeting, which takes place from July 26-30 in Anaheim, Calif. Ways to make the technology more effective, cheaper and smaller will be discussed, and news of research on proton computed tomography (proton CT) -- which uses protons to image the body's interior.