Radiation Proton Therapy Prostate Cancer Treatment
Proton therapy is an advanced and highly precise radiation treatment for tumors.
Radiation proton therapy prostate cancer treatment. Proton therapy precisely targets even the most difficult to treat and reach tumors and allows higher doses of radiation to be delivered to the prostate with fewer side effects. Proton therapy is a type of radiation therapy a treatment that uses high energy beams to treat tumors. Compared to other methods it focuses more energy on the tumor itself with less radiation to surrounding healthy tissue. Proton therapy has shown promise in treating several kinds of cancer.
Radiation therapy using x rays has long been used to treat cancers and noncancerous benign tumors. Proton therapy is a newer type of radiation therapy that uses energy from positively charged particles called protons. Radiation therapy is used to treat many types of cancer including prostate cancer. It can be used as the primary therapy but is often combined.
Proton therapy is a type of radiation treatment. Unlike treatment with conventional x ray therapy which may require 8 beam angles treatment with proton therapy can be achieved using just two beams.