The promise of Protons.(proton beam radiation therapy)

Medical Update | January 1, 2004 | Copyright

A new treatment option offers hope to cancer patients and their families all too familiar with the debilitating complications of conventional surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Utilizing recent advances in technology, specialized centers are attacking certain cancers with a precise form of radiation treatment called proton beam radiation therapy. Studies show the outpatient therapy, which involves the use of fast-moving subatomic particles, has few or no side effects.

Physicists explain that protons are positively charged centers of hydrogen atoms. When ...

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