Items Tagged ‘proton beams’
December 4, 2015
Mayo Clinic In the News Highlights
Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Laura Wuotila with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Carmen Zwicker Star Tribune Mayo lobbies U.S. panel to accept noninvasive colon cancer […]
Tags: ABC Salud, Air Reserve Personnel Center, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, alzheimer's disease, Angelman Syndrome, Arizona State Press, ASU News, ASU Now, ASU-Mayo Seed Grant Program, Athletic Business, Attn:, Becker’s Hospital Review
March 25, 2012
Prostate Cancer Therapy Too Good to Be True Explodes Health Cost
Imagine a prostate cancer therapy that has almost no side effects…The technology uses narrowly focused proton beams to deliver precisely targeted blasts of radiation…‘Bogus’ Criticism “Yes, there are critics, but the best minds in the cancer business think otherwise,” said Hampton University president William R. Harvey. He calls the argument that proton therapy may burden […]
Tags: prostate cancer, proton beams, Robert Foote, William R. Harvey