Radiation therapy involves directing strong beams of energy to kill cancer cells. Patient immobilization is another key ...

The idea behind proton beam therapy is the energy can be targeted ... Then, the team returned to release me from the mask and the machine - and I was free to go. Exactly the same routine was ...

What's new in proton therapy? Read the latest news and views from Fred Hutch's proton therapy facility’s patients and ...

The piéce de resistance is still a work in progress, but two-thirds of the only cancer center between Tampa and Miami that ...

a $50 million anonymous donation to grow Duke’s future proton beam therapy center. “This is a historic gift, both for Duke and for the state of North Carolina,” Duke University President ...

Proton beam therapy (PBT) improves the targeting of radiotherapy ... Our research identified which equipment parameters were important to allow the highest possible patient throughput for the very ...

Duke University Health System received an anonymous $50 million gift for its proton beam therapy center marking the largest philanthropic gift ever received. On Wednesday, Duke University ...

Diagnosed with bone cancer near his ear when he was 40 years old, Chuck Hurley was a good candidate for proton therapy treatment ... focuses them into a narrow beam that can be directed precisely ...

Sujay Vora, M.D., radiation oncologist at Mayo Clinic, led a team of researchers investigating the use of short-course hypofractionated proton beam therapy incorporating advanced imaging ...

Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin health network are on pace to begin offering a next-level form of cancer treatment to patients as soon as August. Earlier this month, a 2-year-long ...