The use of intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) did not improve patient quality of life over the standard of care, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), for the treatment of oropharyngeal ...

For many cancer patients, side effects from radiation can be debilitating. But a new way of delivering radiation treatment has proven effective at eliminating a hard-to-treat cancer with the only side ...

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 ...

Photon therapy offers strong outcomes in treating oropharyngeal cancers; however, some radiation can reach and damage nearby healthy tissue. The damage can lead to side effects that may be severe for ...

New program aims to reduce radiation side effects while targeting tumors ...

Phase 2 study shows proton therapy kept 79.1% of patients progression free at five years and limited severe side effects compared with older radiation data. Investigators at Mass General Brigham ...

On World Cancer Day, Wellness Wednesday is spotlighting a cutting-edge cancer treatment now available in the Oklahoma City metro: proton therapy. We spoke with Dr. Kole Melton, a radiation oncologist ...

A large clinical study recently published in The Lancet showed that patients treated with proton therapy for oropharyngeal cancers (cancers of the upper throat including the tonsils and back of the ...

Sarcomas are tumors that form in the body’s connective tissues such as bone, muscle and fat. They are rare and, because there are more than 150 types, patients benefit from seeing a sarcoma specialist ...

Proton beam therapy, a type of radiation therapy, possesses a physical property known as the Bragg peak, which causes the beam to exert its strongest effect at a specific depth, with no effect beyond ...

UW Health announced on Tuesday it will begin offering proton therapy to treat cancer.