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• The automotive industry is a major consumer of parts washers, and APAC has witnessed substantial growth in automotive manufacturing.
• Amidst this trend, key vendors in the global parts washer market have shifted towards sustainable options to mitigate environmental impact.
• Precise estimation of market size: Accurate assessments of the parts washer market size and its contribution and focusing on key market segments.
• Competitive landscape analysis: A thorough examination of the market's competitive landscape is presented, including detailed information about companies operating in the parts washer market.

• Proton beam therapy is a more precise treatment that can better focus radiation on a cancer, reducing the side-effects of treatment.
• This leads to better cognitive function and fewer long-term side-effects among patients who receive proton therapy compared to X-ray (photon) treatment.
• Although proton therapy is more expensive to deliver than photon radiation, studies have shown long-term cost-effectiveness of proton beam therapy for medulloblastoma.
• In a study of more than 1,000 adults with other types of locally advanced cancer, proton therapy led to fewer unplanned hospitalizations.

Canadian patients need to travel for treatment

• Researchers in the U.K. estimate that up to 15 per cent of all patients with curable cancers may benefit from proton therapy.
• However, without a domestic facility, Canadians who need proton beam therapy must travel out-of-country to receive this medically necessary treatment for their cancer.

Patients who are able to travel out-of-country report high levels of stress and feelings of isolation. Many of these concerns would be reduced with a domestic, Canadian proton therapy facility.

Progress toward Canadian facilities

In 2016, Québec announced a partnership with a private health-care company to build a standalone proton therapy facility in Montréal.

• It is recognized that the per-patient cost to deliver proton therapy would be less if a Canadian facility were available.
• Canadian doctors and patients eagerly await the day when a cancer patient can receive this advanced treatment without travelling out of country.
• Having access to proton therapy would also allow Canadian researchers to collaborate globally in scientific studies.

Derek Tsang receives research grant funding from ACCESS (https://accessforkidscancer.ca), the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada, and the US National Cancer Institute. Tsang also received travel funding from Mevion Medical Systems in 2022.

• The US and UK governments have indicated they are considering recognising Palestine as a state after the current conflict ends.
• US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, meanwhile told US media site Axios that he had commissioned the State Department to review potential options for US and international recognition of a Palestinian state.
• Previously, US policy towards Palestinian statehood had been that this was a matter for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
• International recognition would usher in a new phase for the realisation of Palestinian statehood.

Getting recognised

• There is a detailed and complex process by which new states are recognised under international law, established in 1933 by the Montevideo convention on the rights and duties of states.
• It abstained in the UN general assembly vote in 2012 that granted the non-member observer status at the UN.
• It would change the situation to an international armed conflict which involves one or more states taking up arms against another.

Establishing accountability

• In 2021, the ICC prosecutor initiated investigations into the “situation in the state of Palestine”.
• In respect to the territorial scope of this jurisdiction and investigation, it extends to Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

Palestine’s obligations

• Recognition as a state would involve certain obligations on the part of Palestine, both in terms of international law and human rights.
• States have concrete obligations and duties under international law in relation to how they deal with armed conflicts.
• They are also obliged to act according to international law in recognising and protecting human rights in the territory under their jurisdiction.

Tonny Raymond Kirabira does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• As a strategy and roadmap to that future, "Frontier Life Science in a Time of Change" is unique because HFSPO is unique.
• To read "Frontier Life Science in a Time of Change," in full, go to HFSPO Strategic Plan 2024-2032 .
• The Human Frontier Science Program was established by the G7 countries at the initiative of former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan at the 1987 Venice Summit.
• The mission of HFSPO is to foster bold, basic, frontier research in the life sciences and interdisciplinary collaborations around the world.