Proton therapy lowers chance of later cancers
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 10:10
in Health & Medicine
Patients who are treated with proton therapy (a specialised type of external beam radiation therapy using protons rather than X-rays to treat cancer) decreases the risk of patients developing a secondary cancer by two-fold, compared to being treated with standard photon radiation treatment, according to a first-of-its-kind study presented 22 September 2008, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology's 50th Annual Meeting in Boston...
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