A Phase III clinical trial including patients at the University of Oklahoma found that proton therapy improved survival and ...

The long term use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), a class of drugs widely used to treat acid reflux and ulcers, may not be ...

Ten percent higher 5-year overall survival rates in patients receiving precise proton therapy vs. traditional radiation therapy Patients had significantly fewer side effects and improved quality of ...

Long-term use of histamine-2-receptor antagonists -- another class of drugs used to reduce stomach acid -- also showed no ...

A different kind of radiation therapy can help cancer patients preserve who they are. About half of all cancer patients ...

The therapy is a highly advanced form of radiation therapy that uses charged particles in the form of a proton that that gets ...

Proton Therapy reduces the risk of a second cancer diagnosis by 69% versus other forms of radiation treatment according to a paper recently released by a team from Stanford University. The study ...

The esophagus is the organ in the throat that moves food from the mouth to the stomach. Esophageal cancers make up approximately 1% of cancer diagnoses in the U.S., making them rare. Because many ...

Annemarie Shepherd, MD, medical director of Fred Hutch Cancer Center – Proton Therapy, has a special interest in thymic cancers, a type of thoracic cancer. Thoracic cancers develops in the chest, or ...

Jacksonville, Fl — As Hurricane Milton approached in 2024, Michael Klein went to an ophthalmologist because he was seeing a ...

The first randomized trial to compare proton therapy with conventional radiotherapy has not found a difference in toxicity, which is the main claim for superiority of proton therapy. The trial was ...