Stanford Medicine opened a facility on Tuesday providing proton therapy to cancer patients. The treatment offers a new ...

Annemarie Shepherd, MD, medical director of Fred Hutch Cancer Center – Proton Therapy, has a special interest in thymic cancers, a type of thoracic cancer. Thoracic cancers develops in the chest, or ...

Dr. Ivan Tham, says Proton therapy, is a form of radiation therapy that utises protons to precisely target and destroy cancer cell. Unlihe tradional radiation therapy,which uses X-rays,proton beam ...

The main advantage of proton therapy is its precision. Protons deposit most of their energy directly in the tumor with little ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Men with low- or intermediate-risk prostate cancer achieved similar quality-of-life outcomes whether they ...

A new phase III clinical trial finds that intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and proton beam therapy resulted in similar quality-of-life outcomes and low rates of side effects for people ...

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's proposal to build a new proton beam therapy center will have to wait at least a month.

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Hyderabad: The Board of AIG Hospitals has approved the acquisition of a Proton Beam Therapy system. The hospital has signed an agreement with IBA, a Belgium-based company, to procure the Proteus®ONE ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A different kind of radiation therapy can help cancer patients preserve who they are. About half of all cancer patients typically ...

Blue Shield of California is the latest major insurer to scale back coverage for proton beam therapy for early stage prostate cancer, according to a Wall Street Journal report. In letters sent this ...