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Proton beam therapy offers potential to treat childhood brain cancer with fewer severe side effects
- OPACC
- Feb 1, 2016
- 1 min read
Proton beam therapy--a more precise form of radiotherapy--to treat the childhood brain cancer medulloblastoma appears to be as safe as conventional radiotherapy with similar survival rates, according to new research published in The Lancet Oncology journal today.
Read more here: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/tl-tlo012816.php
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