The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. -- Ten percent higher 5-year overall survival rates in patients receiving precise proton therapy vs. traditional ...

A new study from MD Anderson Cancer Center is drawing national attention after finding higher survival rates among certain cancer patients treated with proton therapy, a more targeted form of ...

Proton beam radiation therapy is a highly precise, noninvasive cancer treatment that delivers a beam of protons that damage a tumor's DNA and destroy cancer cells. Dr. Scot Ackerman from the Ackerman ...

Proton therapy has emerged as a highly precise modality in radiotherapy, utilising accelerated proton beams to deposit dose in a controlled manner and thereby spare surrounding healthy tissues.

Robert Redman is a retired special education teacher who has been treated for recurring cancer for 17 years. He was first diagnosed with a solitary fibrous tumor when he was 41 and living in New York ...

Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center is on its way to becoming the first provider in New Jersey – and one of just four across the U.S. – to install a groundbreaking radiation tool for the ...

TAMPA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BayCare, a leading not-for-profit health care system, announces the groundbreaking of a $33 million expansion to the BayCare Cancer Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital that will ...

Ten percent higher 5-year overall survival rates in patients receiving precise proton therapy vs. traditional radiation therapy Patients had significantly fewer side effects and improved quality of ...