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 ...
Proton beam radiation therapy is a highly precise, noninvasive cancer treatment that delivers a beam of protons that damage a tumor's DNA and destroy cancer cells. Dr. Scot Ackerman from the Ackerman ...
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 ...
Proton therapy is a type of radiation that targets cancer cells more precisely, which may prolong a person’s life. However, proton therapy is new, and pancreatic cancer has a low survival rate, so ...
New research suggests the targeted radiation treatment may reduce long-term side effects while maintaining strong cancer ...
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 ...
When proton therapy is first recommended for patients by their oncologist or primary care physician, or when a patient has learned about proton therapy as a treatment option another way, the first ...
In the article that accompanies this editorial, Howard et al 1 provide a state of the union summary regarding the status of proton therapy in the United States. Proton therapy is a rapidly growing ...
Today patients, doctors, scientists, donors, and community members gathered to mark the opening of a major new resource for cancer care in Utah. The Senator Orrin G. Hatch Proton Therapy Center at ...