Share on Facebook. Opens in a new tab or window Share on X. Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window Patient-reported quality of life (QoL) was similar between ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Men with low- or intermediate-risk prostate cancer achieved similar quality-of-life outcomes whether they ...

People with low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer treated with either of two types of contemporary radiation therapy - proton beam therapy or intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) - ...

Blue Shield of California is the latest major insurer to scale back coverage for proton beam therapy for early stage prostate cancer, according to a Wall Street Journal report. In letters sent this ...

Proton therapy may reduce urinary, bowel and sexual side effects in prostate cancer by minimizing radiation exposure to healthy tissue, per Dr. Curtiland Deville Jr. Newer radiation technologies, such ...

In the other study, Dr. Ciezki’s team used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database to identify patients aged 65 years and older treated for PCa from 1991 to 2007. Of ...

When proton therapy is first recommended for patients by their oncologist or primary care physician, or when a patient has learned about proton therapy as a treatment option another way, the first ...

Proton beam radiation therapy led to 10% more patients surviving cancer of the throat after 5 years compared to traditional X-ray radiation, a new study shows, with 15% fewer side effects. “With this ...

After undergoing proton beam therapy, Ashya is cancer-free, his father said. — -- The parents of a 5-year-old who were briefly jailed after taking him from a British hospital and seeking ...

Proton beam therapy does not improve the patient-reported outcome of bowel function compared with IMRT. Bowel side effects do not differ between patients with localized prostate cancer who receive ...