While there are currently only 22 proton therapy centers in the United States, the growing interest in the advanced cancer therapy is causing more hospitals to weigh the benefits against the high cost ...

Proton Therapy reduces the risk of a second cancer diagnosis by 69% versus other forms of radiation treatment according to a paper recently released by a team from Stanford University. The study ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - A new landmark study published in The Lancet is changing how doctors treat certain head and neck cancers.

New research found patients with certain head and neck cancers lived longer and experienced fewer side effects when treated ...

There are only 45 cancer centers in the U.S. that offer proton beam therapy, according to data from the National Association for Proton Therapy. Proton beam therapy delivers a high dose of radiation ...

A new center offering treatment for cancer patients is expected to make its debut in the spring.

Proton radiotherapy (RT) for oropharyngeal cancer matched conventional photon therapy for slowing disease progression and led ...

More than 250 total between Phoenix and Rochester, including 19 doctors and 19 physicists. About 500 construction jobs are expected to be created during construction of the Richard O. Jacobson Proton ...

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 ...

FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - The McLaren Proton Therapy Center in Flint announced that it has treated more than 1,000 cancer patients in its five years of existence. The center treats patients with a variety ...

FLINT, MI -- Catherine Loss was diagnosed with stage 3 nasopharyngeal cancer in 2020 and thought the worst of it. Nasopharyngeal is a cancer that occurs in the nasopharynx, which is located behind the ...