The field of radiation oncology has advanced in brain cancer treatment with precise therapeutic approaches including proton ...

Penn Medicine celebrated the groundbreaking of the Roberts Proton Therapy Center at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in ...

Proton arc therapy allows doctors to deliver radiation with greater precision, without affecting healthy tissue or the organs ...

The proton beam therapy center will be Penn's fourth when it opens in late 2027. The others are at HUP, Virtua Voorhees, and ...

Proton radiation therapy uses charged heavy particles to do the job, rather than the X-rays used in photon radiation. It's a more targeted method that prevents damage around the treated area ...

I had 33 proton therapy treatments in total and, amazingly, had no side effects and didn't miss a day of work," Beard said. "You hear a lot of stories about radiation side effects, and I just wasn ...

Finally, he studies health care disparities and ways to increase patient access to radiation therapy. Dr. Rengan treats patients with a variety of solid-tumor cancers. Photon- and Proton based ...