Proton therapy is an advanced radiation treatment that zooms in on breast cancers while sparing nearby healthy tissue. WebMD tells you how it differs from standard cancer radiotherapy.

Proton therapy, sometimes called proton beam therapy, is a type of radiation used to treat cancer. It uses tiny particles called protons to do the job that X-rays do in traditional radiation therapy.

While radiation treatments designed to kill cancer cells have come a long way, scientists and doctors are always exploring ...

Chemotherapy used to target and kill bladder cancer cells may trigger an inflammatory response that ultimately may make the ...

In the treatment of cancer patients, irradiation can be adapted anew each day to the position of the tumor and conditions in the body.

There are only 45 cancer centers in the U.S. that offer proton beam therapy, according to data from the National Association for Proton Therapy.

The New Brunswick, N.J., pharmaceutical giant on Thursday said the application covers TAR-200 for the treatment of patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin-unresponsive high-risk non-muscle invasive ...

A new magnet array at Brookhaven Lab can steer cancer-killing proton beams at record energy levels up to 250 MeV. This magnet ...

A research team led by Professor Lee Sang-chul of the Department of Urology at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (Professor Ryu Ho-young of the Department of Urology at Lee Daemok-dong ...

Based on durable response data, TAR-200 has been given priority review for the treatment of patients with high-risk ...

Proton beam radiation therapy is a highly precise, noninvasive cancer treatment that delivers a beam of protons that damage a tumor's DNA and destroy cancer cells. Dr. Scot Ackerman from the ...

A team of researchers from MSK and Weill Cornell Medicine is expanding the understanding of how a decades-old treatment for bladder cancer works — an understanding that could help improve the ...