Proton therapy is an advanced radiation treatment that precisely targets tumors with a goal of limiting harm to healthy tissue. It may help reduce short- and long-term side effects, lower the risk of ...

The technology, which in the past had been limited by size and cost, provides targeted doses of radiation to tumors, ...

Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute (HUPTI) began with a vision. After the instillation of the first proton cancer treatment institute in 1990, rumblings of the therapy’s success reached ...

Charlotte Elwood was diagnosed with a rare ovarian cancer in 1997 and given six months to live. She received multiple treatments for the cancer and its metastases over the course of almost two decades ...

A $96 million cancer treatment center using proton technology to reduce damage to healthy tissue could begin construction on ...

Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine has begun construction on the state’s first proton therapy system at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, also in Omaha.  The ...