Sentences with phrase «as proton therapy»

Targeted therapies, immune therapies and advanced technologies such as proton therapy and data mining are resulting in better cancer treatments for patients and reducing the toxic side effects that have, for so long, been associated with cancer.

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Publishing a commentary about Bitcoin by an institutional economics professor is as responsible as letting a village witch doctor give lectures on the merits of proton radiation therapy to treat cancer («The Bitcoin myth,» March 3).

I'm interested in doing a film on proton therapy, for example, because I have a tumor in my brain; it's the tumor that affected my eyesight as a child.

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This promises to make proton therapy an option for thousands more cancer patients by reducing the risks of healthy tissue being damaged during treatment, particularly in vulnerable parts of the body such as the brain, eye and spinal cord.

Proton beam therapy — a more precise form of radiotherapy — to treat the childhood brain cancer medulloblastoma appears to be as safe as conventional radiotherapy with similar survival rates, according to new research published in The Lancet Oncology journal.

All patients (59) received chemotherapy as well as proton beam therapy.

Radiation therapy is a form of targeted therapy that uses high - energy particles or waves (such as x-rays, electrons, protons) to kill cancer cells.

Proton therapy is an advanced form of radiation treatment that is especially effective for reaching tumors or remaining cancer cells close to key organs such as the brain stem or spinal cord.

Proton beam therapy as a nonsurgical approach to mucosal melanoma of the head and neck: a pilot study.

Patients receive a personalized, comprehensive approach to care for their benign and malignant brain tumors and are evaluated for multimodality treatments such as chemotherapy, minimally invasive surgical options, and radiation therapy including proton therapy and gamma knife.