Stephen De La Torre, 7, is usually all smiles. But on a recent Wednesday at Stanford Medicine’s cancer center in Palo Alto, the boy climbed resolutely into the chair of a first-of-its-kind treatment ...

Conference keynote presentations centered on new landmark Phase III trial data and emerging clinical evidence across multiple disease sites, including: Significant Increase in Survival for Head and ...

The number of radiotherapy patients treated with protons has increased from less than 60,000 in 2007 to more than 220,000 in 2019. However, the considerable uncertainty in the positioning of the Bragg ...

June is National Cancer Survivor Month. Learn about anxiety and cancer; read the latest highlights from the 2023 National Proton Conference; meet dosimetrist Christopher Gratton. May 30, 2023 • By ...

When Shannon Fleming was told his prostate cancer had returned and was considered incurable, he says his world stopped."It ...

LITTLETON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mevion Medical Systems, the leading provider of compact proton therapy systems for use in radiation treatment for cancer patients, today introduced its new product, ...

Using ‘momentum cooling’ in cyclotron-based proton therapy can increase proton transmission rates and thereby reduce treatment delivery times. This simple technique, which reduces the momentum spread ...

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 ...

In 2019, at age four, Hedley Elliot got extreme head- and earaches. For his parents, it was an emotional time, and they urgently sought a diagnosis and treatment for his pain. Fortunately, they live ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than 3 decades after receiving FDA approval, proton beam radiation therapy has failed to find a footing as ...

The Federal Government is actively considering a Victorian proposal, with Melbourne’s Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre emerging ...

Radiation is a targeted form of cancer treatment used for up to half of all patients with cancer. Most radiation treatments are delivered using focused X-rays. Because X-rays travel through tissues, ...