The Mayo Clinic introduced its new Proton Beam Therapy Program with treatment for patients at the Rochester, Minnesota facility last summer.
In properly selected patients especially children and young adults and those with cancers located close to critical organs and body structures proton beam therapy is an advance over traditional radiotherapy….
That’s Dr. Sameer Keolo. He’s the assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. He says Proton Beam Therapy is targeted and helps to spare healthy tissue and this is especially significant in treating kids…
Keole says with Proton Beam Therapy, they have two goals in mind….
Keole says they already have a clinical trial featuring 100 patients with Prostate Cancer….
Keole says being able to shrink the treatment plan down to one week increases survival rate for those patients significantly.
