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 | August 10, 2016
August 10, 2016 — Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and UC Health are celebrating the grand opening of the...
News | Radiation Therapy | July 29, 2016
Mevion Medical Systems announced that University Hospitals (UH) in Cleveland used the Mevion S250 proton therapy system...
News | Proton Therapy | July 05, 2016
July 5, 2016 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) and the Institute Curie in Paris, France, announced the signature of an...
News | Proton Therapy | June 02, 2016
June 2, 2016 — University Hospitals in Cleveland recently held a ceremony to mark the completion of its new $30 million...
News | Proton Therapy | May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016 — Hitachi Ltd. announced that Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital (HKSH) has selected Hitachi to supply a...
News | Proton Therapy | May 11, 2016
May 11, 2016 — Varian Medical Systems delivered the cyclotron for the new multi-room HollandPTC in Delft, the...
News | Proton Therapy | April 19, 2016
April 19, 2016 — Texas Center for Proton Therapy and IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) announced the first patient...
News | Proton Therapy | April 18, 2016
April 18, 2016 — Delray Medical Center, Delray Beach, Fla., has reached agreement with Proton International (PI) to...
News | Proton Therapy | April 13, 2016
April 13, 2016 — Physicians have begun treating patients with the Mevion S250 proton therapy system at The Marjorie and...
News | Proton Therapy | April 05, 2016
April 5, 2016 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications SA) has recently received CE mark authorization of its new supra conducting...
The proton treatment plan for 5-year-old Ashya King, who made headlines in 2014 after his parents were arrested for taking him from a National Health Service (NHS) hospital in the U.K. and bringing him to a proton therapy center in the Czech Republic for treatment. Proton therapy was not available in the U.K. The boys cancer went into complete remission after the proton treatments. This treatment plan, overlaid on the CT scan, shows the proton delivery zones without penetration into health tissue in the child's thorax or abdomen.
Feature | Proton Therapy | April 05, 2016 | Dave Fornell
As proton therapy becomes more widely available, imaging for the development of proton treatment plans will become more...
News | Proton Therapy | March 30, 2016
March 30, 2016 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications SA) announced it has signed a contract with the University Hospitals Leuven...
News | Proton Therapy | March 15, 2016
March 15, 2016 — Hitachi Ltd. announced that Mayo Clinic in Phoenix began treating patients this week with its advanced...
News | Proton Therapy | February 25, 2016
February 25, 2016 — The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) announced that the Maryland Proton Treatment...
News | Proton Therapy | February 16, 2016
February 16, 2016 – A superconducting synchrocyclotron proton accelerator was delivered Valentine’s Day weekend to...
News | Proton Therapy | February 04, 2016
February 4, 2016 — The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) announced the establishment of the Maryland...
News | Radiation Therapy | February 03, 2016
February 3, 2016 — The nuclear medicine, proton therapy and brachytherapy markets represent less than 0.1 percent of...
This proton treatment plan created with the Varian Eclipse software illustrates how protons interact with a patient's tissues in a prostate cancer case. The red shows the delivery of the protons to the target where the maximum amount of energy is deposited in the patient. To deliver protons on target, CT scans are used to determine the proton stopping power of the tissues the beam passes through to determine the proton velocity needed.
Feature | Proton Therapy | January 29, 2016 | Dave Fornell
As proton therapy becomes more widely available, imaging for the development of proton treatment plans will become more...
Sponsored Content | Videos | Proton Therapy | January 22, 2016
At ASTRO 2015, Mevion highlighted the exceptional results its customers are seeing with the Mevion S250 Series proton...
News | Proton Therapy | January 07, 2016
January 7, 2016 — MEDraysintell noticed that in 2015 global proton therapy sales orders grew to record levels at just...
