PhD student develops radiotherapy monitor using glass jewellery beads --- Medical physics PhD student Shakardokht Jafari has developed a way of monitoring radiotherapy doses using inexpensive glass jewellery beads, opening up new possibilities for cancer treatment around the world. --- Seeing her own father die prematurely from cancer prompted medical physicist Shakardokht to specialise in the area of dosimetry – the monitoring of radiotherapy exposure – in order to do something about cancer care in Afghanistan. --- Currently studying for a PhD in radiation dosimetry at the University of Surrey, Shakardokht has also becom Commission and ane a member of the Afghanistan Atomic Energy advisor on radiation in her country. - University of Surrey - surrey.ac.uk