LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Proton therapy to treat prostate cancer has been available in Southern California for nearly 35 years. It's less invasive and offers fewer side effects compared to conventional ...

Proton beam therapy does not improve the patient-reported outcome of bowel function compared with IMRT. Bowel side effects do not differ between patients with localized prostate cancer who receive ...

In the other study, Dr. Ciezki’s team used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database to identify patients aged 65 years and older treated for PCa from 1991 to 2007. Of ...

For patients with intermediate- or low-risk localized prostate cancer, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and proton beam therapy are both safe and effective options, according to results of ...

A large trial of people with earlier stages of prostate cancer compared two types of external radiation treatments head-to-head—proton beam therapy and intensity-modulated radiation therapy, or ...

The therapy is a highly advanced form of radiation therapy that uses charged particles in the form of a proton that that gets delivered with precision into a tumor that might be near a critical organ, ...