Proton Therapy
Proton therapy, or proton beam therapy, is a type of radiation therapy used to treat cancer. At a high energy, the positively charged particles can destroy cancer cells.
News | Proton Therapy | October 29, 2018
October 29, 2018 — At the 2018 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting, IBA announced the launch...
News | Proton Therapy | October 25, 2018
October 25, 2018 — IBA announced the first irradiation of a Spot Scanning Proton Arc (SPArc) plan at the Beaumont...
News | Proton Therapy | October 23, 2018
October 23, 2018 — Varian announced its new single-room proton therapy system, ProBeam 360°, at the 2018 American...
Amar U. Kishan, M.D., presents data about stereotactic body radiation therapy at ASTRO 2018.
Feature | Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) | October 23, 2018 | By Greg Freiherr
With its shorter course of treatment, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) has long been preferred for patients...
News | Proton Therapy | October 19, 2018
October 19, 2018 – IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) is sharing how hospitals can secure performance, investment and...
Feature | Proton Therapy | October 04, 2018 | By Adam Conner-Simons
Investigating inside the human body often requires cutting open a patient or swallowing long tubes with built-in...
News | Treatment Planning | August 27, 2018
August 27, 2018 — Tsuyama Chuo Hospital in Okayama Prefecture, southwest Japan, has commenced clinical use of...
Videos | Proton Therapy | August 10, 2018
A discussion with Matthew Freeman, Ph.D., scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. He spoke about his...
The IBA Proteus Plus.
Feature | Proton Therapy | August 08, 2018 | By Jeff Zagoudis
As one of the more precise methods of delivering radiation therapy for cancer treatment, proton therapy has grown at a...
News | Proton Therapy | July 30, 2018
July 30, 2018 – IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) announced that they completed the first two installations of the...
News | Proton Therapy | July 12, 2018
July 12, 2018 — Randomized clinical trials are the gold standard of cancer research and can shed light on whether...
News | Treatment Planning | July 05, 2018
July 5, 2018 — MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington D.C., has begun patient treatments using the...
Feature | Proton Therapy | July 03, 2018 | By Jeff Zagoudis
The Alliance for Proton Therapy Access (APTA) released a national report in late May revealing the heavy emotional and...
News | Proton Therapy | May 31, 2018
May 31, 2018 — Members of Beaumont Health’s proton therapy team presented research on a new treatment for patients with...
News | Proton Therapy | May 25, 2018
May 25, 2018 — The Alliance for Proton Therapy Access has released a national report revealing the heavy emotional and...
News | Proton Therapy | April 27, 2018
April 27, 2018 — For the first time, cancer patients in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region have access to proton...
News | Proton Therapy | April 05, 2018
April 5, 2018 — Mevion Medical Systems announced the treatment of the first patient in the world on the Mevion S250i...
MEDraysintell released a report in January revising its projection for the number of proton therapy centers worldwide by 2030 down from 1,200 to 900. The company said that more than 50 proton therapy treatment rooms would need to be opened every year from 2018 to 2030 to hit the original projection of 1,200.
Feature | Proton Therapy | March 06, 2018 | By Jeff Zagoudis
Proton therapy has experienced major growth in the last decade, but that growth seems to have slowed slightly in recent...
News | Radiation Oncology | February 01, 2018
World Cancer Day takes place annually on Feb. 4 to raise awareness and education in the media, governments and people...
News | Proton Therapy | February 01, 2018
February 1, 2018 – Apollo Hospitals, Asia´s foremost integrated healthcare provider, has selected RayStation for a new...
