8 January 2009 Comments Off

Caring for Lung Cancer on 4D Protons

Equated to the x rays traditionally applied in radiotherapy, protons offer the ability to destruct lung tumors just as competently while inflicting less hurt to environing healthy tissue. In a minor observational patient study, researchers have expanded the effectivity of using protons to treat lung tumors. In conventional radiation therapy, one must apply aggregate beams [...]