PROTON NEWS

• Study Indicates Proton Therapy May Improve Treatment of Rare but Aggressive Cranial-base Tumor
  Massachusetts General Hospital’s (MGH) proton center announced that proton beam radiation therapy may be an effective treatment for advanced adenoid cystic carcinoma that has spread to the cranial base. The 11- year study using proton therapy to treat this tumor was published in the November, 2006 journal of Archives of Otolaryngology –Head and Neck Surgery. (see article)
  
  
• New Study by Hopkins Scientists Eyes PSA Tests for Prostate Cancer: According to a study published November 1, 2006 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, prostate cancer is more likely to be life-threatening if the man’s PSA level rose rapidly during the years before he was diagnosed. (see article)
  
  
• Clinical Applications of Proton Beam Radiation Treatment at Loma Linda University: Review of a Fifteen-year Experience. (see published journal article)
  
  
• M. D. Anderson Opens Nation's Largest Proton Facility (see article)
  
  
• Prostate Watchful Waiting Update: Safe Option or Not? The "watchful waiting" debate continues. Now comes a recent Wall Street Journal "Health Journal" article saying "there's increasing evidence that watchful waiting is a safe option for 30% to 50% of men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer." May, 06 . . . (read story).
  
  
• A New View on Prostate Cancer: New Study Indicates Treating Elderly Men Right After Diagnosis is Better Than the Current "Watchful Waiting" Approach Mar. 06 . . . (read story)
  

• Proton Therapy Helps Eye Cancer Patients Beat the Disease and Retain Vision (August 3, 2005 see story). British Study Conducted on 349 Eye Melanoma Patients.

• Fortune magazine's (June 27, 2005 issue) feature article on M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's soon-to-be-open proton facility and the proton industry, is headlined Zapping Cancer Cells: In a bunker the size of a football field, a Houston research center will blast tumors with a collossal generator.. . (read story)
  
  
• Recent Proton Therapy Industry Happenings - May 05 . . . (read story)
  
  
• Cancer Rises to the Top of the Charts as the Wall Street Journal Targets Advantage of Proton-Beam Therapy for Cancer Treatment
  
  
• Proton Therapy Study for Stage 1 Lung Cancer Shows Good Results
  
  
• New Study Finds Proton Therapy's Increased Radiation Dose an Advantage for . . . (read story)
  
  
• Zapping Cancer: Proton Beam Therapy Effective in Targeting Tumors Says ABC-TV
  
  
• TEN YEAR PROSTATE PATIENT STUDY PUBLISHED
  
  
• Swiss Lab Advances Proton Therapy into German Hospital - May 10, 2004
  
  
• TODAY SHOW MAKES POSITIVE PROTON POINT
  
  
• AMA Study Says Early Radiation May Cure Recurrent Prostate Cancer

 

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