Advocate Radiation Oncology’s cancer treatment center offers traditional radiation treatments through Varian TrueBeam, a linear accelerator that targets and destroys tumor cells in the body using ...
As treatment is targeted at the cancer, there is less radiation to healthy tissue and fewer side effects. Although it’s called radiosurgery there is no surgery involved. Proton therapy machines treat ...
Proton therapy, on the other hand, is a form of radiation therapy that uses protons to irradiate cancerous tissues while minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissues. Recent research has ...
In 2020, the University of Cincinnati Medical Centre launched the first ever clinical trial of Flash proton radiotherapy in patients whose primary cancer had metastasised to the bones, with early ...