Stephen De La Torre's brain tumor was the size of a battery and close to his brain stem, so doctors found a way to shrink the ...

A tech breakthrough fits a specialized type of radiation treatment into standard treatment rooms, including at Stanford ...

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 ...

Penn Medicine is building its fourth proton therapy center and has taken a major step toward opening the facility. A 55-ton ...

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 ...

Michelle Finley's cancer journey began in 2017 with stage 2 invasive ductal carcinoma — a type of breast cancer that starts in the milk ducts of a woman and moves into nearby tissue. She told Scripps ...

A growing number of lung cancer patients are finding renewed hope through proton therapy, a treatment that delivers highly ...

Leo Cancer Care's high-tech chair, which combines an upright patient positioning system and a CT scanner, received FDA clearance in July. Startup Leo Cancer Care is transforming proton radiation ...

The first randomized trial to compare photon- and proton-based radiation therapy for breast cancer finds that patients report equally strong health-related quality of life with either treatment.

An expert explained the benefits of proton therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer, which delivers radiation directly to the tumor and spares surrounding areas. Proton therapy for the treatment ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The first randomized study of photon and proton radiation for breast cancer showed both modalities preserve ...