Cancer treatment in the Americas is about to enter a new era, with Florida poised to become the only location in the Western Hemisphere offering a cutting-edge "heavy particle" therapy. Governor Ron ...

Particle therapy using a mix of carbon-, oxygen- and neon-ion beams helps tune the fine balance between range robustness, uniform dose and high linear energy transfer ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis joined Mayo Clinic President and CEO Dr. Kent Thielen to announce the launch of the first carbon ion therapy program in America.

For many women with early breast cancer, surgery is effective but life-altering. New five-year data from the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) suggest that a precisely ...

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 ...

The MedAustron Center for Ion Therapy has demonstrated the safety and efficacy of both, proton and carbon ion therapy for the treatment of skull based chordomas, a bone located cancer. In a recent ...

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 ...

Mayo Clinic Jacksonville is opening a $320 million oncology facility featuring the Western Hemisphere's first carbon ion therapy program. The Duan Family Building will offer advanced radiation ...

In a groundbreaking announcement, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis revealed the launch of the nation’s first carbon ion therapy program aimed at treating cancer. This ...