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 ...

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 ...

Members of the research team at the heavy ion gantry of the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Centre. Left to right: Simon Jolly, Joao Seco, Laurent Kelleter, Lennart Volz and Raffaella Radogna. (Courtesy: ...

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 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Mayo Clinic announced Tuesday morning it has plans to build a carbon ion therapy treatment facility at its Jacksonville campus in partnership with Hitachi, Ltd. The carbon ion ...

Carbon ion therapy is a highly advanced radiation therapy technique that can be effective for complex tumors which are difficult to treat with conventional methods. The market for carbon ion therapy ...

Mayo Clinic and Hitachi, Ltd. have reached an agreement in principle to build a carbon ion treatment facility as part of Mayo Clinic's recently announced integrated oncology facility which will be ...

A Korean research team has identified a substance that hinders the effectiveness of 'heavy ion therapy.' Hailed as a 'dream cancer treatment,' heavy ion therapy is two to three times more effective at ...

The Mayo Clinic plans to build a carbon ion treatment facility to fight cancer at its Jacksonville campus, which Mayo says would be the first of its kind in North America. Carbon ion therapy has the ...