MeSH tree: E02.815.250.500
Photon therapy offers strong outcomes in treating oropharyngeal cancers; however, some radiation can reach and damage nearby healthy tissue. The damage can lead to side effects that may be severe for some patients. In a new ...
Dec 15, 2025
0
0
A new phase III clinical trial finds that intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and proton beam therapy resulted in similar quality-of-life outcomes and low rates of side effects for people with locally advanced oropharyngeal ...
Sep 29, 2025
0
0
Modern methods of radiotherapy would fight cancer more effectively and safely if treatments could be planned, taking into account the radiation quality of the therapeutic proton beams. An achievement by physicists from the ...
Jul 18, 2025
0
0
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)—achieved equally high rates ...
Sep 30, 2024
0
0
In the treatment of cancer patients, irradiation can be adapted anew each day to the position of the tumor and conditions in the body. Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have now, for the first time, integrated ...
Sep 19, 2024
0
14
Nearly half of all cancer patients undergo radiation therapy as part of their care. Ionizing radiation, or the emission of high-energy waves or particles, works as a therapy by damaging a cancer cell's DNA. It's an effective ...
Jan 4, 2024
0
1
NPL scientists have worked on a range of projects that are set to significantly improve the accuracy of a type of radiotherapy treatment called proton beam radiotherapy. The benefits of this therapy include more precise targeting ...
Sep 1, 2023
0
5
The aim of proton radiation therapy in fighting cancer is to kill as many tumor cells as possible while also protecting the surrounding healthy tissue. As there is yet no direct method for mapping the beam range during dose ...
Jun 19, 2023
0
62
Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have achieved an important breakthrough in the development of a new and highly accurate radiotherapy treatment for cancer called FLASH RT. The new treatment is as effective ...
Mar 15, 2023
0
105
Cancer irradiation with hadron beams, a method to which CERN contributed by propelling carbon ion therapy of radioresistant tumors into the medical world some thirty years ago, has treated more than 300,000 patients to date. ...
Nov 23, 2022
0
30
