The nation's first and only proton therapy center to treat patients exclusively with pencil-beam scanning is reporting exceptional results in delivering cancer treatment since opening for patient care ...

LITTLETON, Mass. & MORRISTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Atlantic Health System, an integrated health care system setting standards for quality health care in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the New York ...

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 ...

Dr. Robert Foote has been thinking about pencil-beam proton therapy for so long that it might seem like a dream to him when Mayo Clinic's Richard O. Jacobson Proton Therapy Center in Rochester fully ...

LITTLETON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mevion Medical Systems, the leading provider of compact proton therapy systems, today announced a partnership with Nebraska Medicine to integrate the MEVION S250-FIT ...

Mayo Clinic has announced plans to build proton beam therapy facilities at its Rochester, Minn., and Scottsdale, Ariz., cancer center sites, a combined $370 million project, according to a Mayo Clinic ...

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 ...

Within the next month, providers at Fred Hutch – Proton Therapy will be able to offer advanced X-ray radiation, called TrueBeam photon radiation, to those patients who will benefit from this modality.