Pencil Beam Radiation Offers New Therapy Option for Lung Cancer Patients

Published October 20, 2010

Pencil Beam Radiation Offers New Therapy Option for Lung Cancer Patients
HOUSTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ — Pencil beam scanning technology, an even more advanced and targeted form of radiation treatment known as proton therapy, is now being used to treat patients with lung cancer at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Proton therapy derives its advantage over conventional forms of radiation from its ability to deliver radiation doses to a targeted tumor …
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UNC’s Breland ready to return after cancer fight
Jessica Breland doesn’t mind the prodding questions about her health. The North Carolina forward is getting comfortable taking a front-and-center position in the fight against cancer. Back on the basketball court 1 1/2 years after being diagnosed with disease, she wants others to find hope in her comeback story.
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Nashville’s medical trade center good for economy (Morning Read)
Forty-four percent of the people who took a poll by the Nashville Business Journal think their city’s medical trade center project is key for economic development so it should get state tax credits to draw tenants.
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