(NAPSI)—Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in men in the U.S., but if detected early, it has a five-year survival rate of nearly 99 percent. While surgery and radiation ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An expensive prostate cancer radiation treatment known as proton beam therapy has just as many side effects as a more common and cheaper radiation method, according to a ...

Proton therapy results in fewer side effects than traditional X-ray radiation therapy for many cancer patients, according to a new study led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis ...

Proton beam therapy is a new type of radiation therapy for liver cancer. Research suggests that it may be equally effective as traditional radiation therapy but cause fewer side effects. Proton beam ...

The tech is the most advanced form of radiation, delivering a targeted energy beam to tumors while sparing healthy tissue ...

Proton therapy provides a safer, targeted alternative to conventional radiation for some breast cancer patients. Radiation therapy has improved dramatically over the past few decades to allow for more ...

Emily Weg, MD, and Jonathan Chen, MD, PhD, are two of our esteemed proton therapy experts at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center – Proton Therapy. Both are highly respected among patients as well as staff.

Australia was promised world-class proton beam therapy nearly a decade ago. A life-saving technology that precisely targets ...

NEW: @hopkinskimmel at Sibley receives $40M to expand pediatric proton therapy. The new center will unite Hopkins, ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Pediatric and adult oncology patients at Atrium Health ...