Here's an interesting take on proton beam therapy that originated in the Archives of Internal Medicine journal. This was spotlighted onValentine's Day by Gary Schwitzer on the Health News Review blog.

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 ...

ROCHESTER — When Derek Gerlach, then 10 years old, was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer in November 2018, his treatment began almost immediately. Within a month, Derek underwent surgery to remove ...

Angus Chen covers all issues broadly related to cancer including drugs, policy, science, and equity. He joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at NPR and NPR affiliate stations. His ...

Why are clinical trials in radiation oncology important? If you or a loved one is going through treatment for cancer, you may have wondered about clinical trials. How do they benefit patients? How ...

Proton beam radiation therapy led to 10% more patients surviving cancer of the throat after 5 years compared to traditional X-ray radiation, a new study shows, with 15% fewer side effects. “With this ...

PEORIA, Ill. — A carbon slate for patients to lie on sits under a rotating machine designed to beam radiation at pea-size tumors. Months earlier, the Proton beam therapy system arrived in Peoria from ...

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 ...

Until this week, Mayo Clinic had tested its $180 million proton beam accelerator only on water, a cadaver and cuts of meat donated by Ye Olde Butcher Shoppe in Rochester. But Monday, with a turn of a ...

Derek Tsang receives research grant funding from ACCESS (https://accessforkidscancer.ca), the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada, and the US National Cancer Institute. Tsang also received travel ...