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March
2008

Proton Radiation As a Cancer Treatment

category: Dafé’s Café - Daily Dose of Medical News,MyDocHub
by Dafé,

Proton Cancer Treatment

220-ton particle accelerator could save healthy tissue:

The University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center will soon be the only one in the mid-Atlantic region and the largest in the world to use proton therapy.

According to the proton therapy center director, Dr. Stephen Hahn, traditional radiation therapy goes through a tumor, damaging normal tissue behind it. On the other hand, “it’s estimated there is about a 50 to 70 percent reduction in radiation doses to normal tissue with protons.”

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