Proton beam radiation therapy, long used in cancer care, has produced an approximately 80% reduction in dangerous ventricular tachycardia episodes for patients with no remaining treatment options.
Proton beam therapy does not improve the patient-reported outcome of bowel function compared with IMRT. Bowel side effects do not differ between patients with localized prostate cancer who receive ...
Proton therapy may reduce urinary, bowel and sexual side effects in prostate cancer by minimizing radiation exposure to healthy tissue, per Dr. Curtiland Deville Jr. Newer radiation technologies, such ...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Proton therapy to treat prostate cancer has been available in Southern California for nearly 35 years. It's less invasive and offers fewer side effects compared to conventional ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Treatment with intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) or intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) resulted in similarly low rates of late toxicity in patients with locally ...
On World Cancer Day, Wellness Wednesday is spotlighting a cutting-edge cancer treatment now available in the Oklahoma City metro: proton therapy. We spoke with Dr. Kole Melton, a radiation oncologist ...
People with low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer treated with either of two types of contemporary radiation therapy - proton beam therapy or intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) - ...
Their four-year-old daughter Charlie has a rare brain tumour, one of only four cases in Australia in the past 15 years. After ...
Sarcomas are tumors that form in the body’s connective tissues such as bone, muscle and fat. They are rare and, because there are more than 150 types, patients benefit from seeing a sarcoma specialist ...
Intensity-modulated radiotherapy is as good as proton beam therapy for treating people with head and neck cancer, according to the results of a Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial. The TORPEdO ...
ProCure Proton Therapy Center has launched a new awareness initiative aimed at helping patients and families better understand proton therapy—an advanced radiation treatment designed to protect ...