Proton therapy may prevent later cancers
Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 11:14
in Health & Medicine
BOSTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say proton therapy patients have a two-fold lesser risk of developing a secondary cancer compared with being treated by photon radiation.
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