UW Health announced on Tuesday it will begin offering proton therapy to treat cancer.

UW Health has begun offering proton therapy at Eastpark Medical Center in Madison, providing precise radiation for select ...

Moffitt Cancer Center is unveiling its new ‘Proteus ONE’ machine; with it, they will be able to offer proton therapy to ...

I’M MINDY BASARA IN TODAY’S MEDICAL ALERT. RADIATION THERAPY IS A COMMON TREATMENT FOR CANCER. ABOUT HALF OF ALL CANCER PATIENTS WILL RECEIVE IT. ONE OF THE DOWNSIDES OF TRADITIONAL RADIATION IS THAT ...

Proton therapy patient Keith Abbott recently sent a note to the care team at Fred Hutch – Proton Therapy. “In 2015 [10 years ago], I was diagnosed with stage 3 esophageal cancer,” he wrote. “After ...

Charlotte Elwood will never let anyone tell her anything is impossible. When the Boise, Idaho resident was diagnosed in 1997 with a rare form of ovarian cancer called germ cell granulosa — despite ...

In a phase 3 trial of patients with stage III or IV oropharyngeal cancer, intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) resulted in noninferior progression-free survival and better overall survival than ...

Proton beam radiation therapy led to 10% more patients surviving cancer of the throat after 5 years compared to traditional X-ray radiation, a new study shows, with 15% fewer side effects. “With this ...

For many cancer patients, side effects from radiation can be debilitating. But a new way of delivering radiation treatment has proven effective at eliminating a hard-to-treat cancer with the only side ...

A new study from MD Anderson Cancer Center is drawing national attention after finding higher survival rates among certain cancer patients treated with proton therapy, a more targeted form of ...

The use of intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) did not improve patient quality of life over the standard of care, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), for the treatment of oropharyngeal ...

New program aims to reduce radiation side effects while targeting tumors ...