Florida's west coast gets another option for the radiation option, which uses charged particles called protons to target ...

Winter Haven residents facing cancer have another treatment option within BayCare’s regional network following the opening of a $33 million proton therapy center in Tampa. The BayCare Proton Center is ...

Walk into the radiotherapy wing of a cancer hospital in most Indian cities and the waiting area tells you something. Patients travel from districts where no machine exists. Where one does exist, a ...

A proposed Medicare pricing change could cut payments to freestanding proton therapy centers by nearly 30% in 2027. The change would affect two standalone Jacksonville centers and 15 others nationwide ...

Tyler Wilhite, MD, discusses expanding a radiation oncology program to also utilize low-dose radiation therapy for benign diseases. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) faculty have ...

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Penn Medicine is testing FLASH proton therapy for recurrent head and neck cancer, delivering radiation in less than a second.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Moffitt Cancer Center has invested in some of the most ...

Proton therapy and photon therapy are both forms of radiation treatment used to destroy cancer cells, but they deliver radiation through the body in different ways. Photon therapy remains the most ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...