Heavy ion therapy — the most potent form of radiotherapy — may finally become available in the United States. The irony is that it was first investigated in the United States, but decades later, it ...

Members of the research team at the heavy ion gantry of the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Centre. Left to right: Simon Jolly, Joao Seco, Laurent Kelleter, Lennart Volz and Raffaella Radogna. (Courtesy: ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In a bold step to transform cancer care, Mayo Clinic is bringing new hope for patients diagnosed with the most aggressive and treatment-resistant cancers. Today, Mayo Clinic ...

Carbon-ion cancer therapy, or carbon-ion radiotherapy (CIRT) is not a new concept but is showing new promise for the treatment of radiation resistant tumors and cancers like mesothelioma, certain ...

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, KCI, an Acelity Company, announced it has remotely monitored its 10,000 th patient through the Company’s iOn PROGRESS™ Remote Therapy Monitoring. Working in ...

Heavy-ion therapy, one of the most advanced radiotherapy techniques, has proven to be more effective than conventional X-rays and proton radiation in cancer treatment. However, the mechanisms behind ...

Heavy ions could radically improve radiation therapy for treatment of pancreatic cancer and other difficult-to-treat tumors if researchers can better understand how the ions work against cancer. A new ...

Simulated proton-CT, helium-CT and carbon-CT images. (Courtesy: Sebastian Meyer) Treatment planning for particle therapy is currently performed using X-ray CT images of the patient, with the CT ...

The Mayo Clinic plans to build a carbon ion treatment facility to fight cancer at its Jacksonville campus, which Mayo says would be the first of its kind in North America. Carbon ion therapy has the ...

Mayo Clinic and Hitachi, Ltd. have reached an agreement in principle to build a carbon ion treatment facility as part of Mayo Clinic's recently announced integrated oncology facility which will be ...