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♪♪ >> THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S LEADING PEDIATRIC HOSPITALS. >> AND IT IS LOCATED IN ONE OF THE MOST HISTORIC AND...

I will make this very short If I may offer some historic information I went to medical school and never heard about a chordoma And I ended my specialty training here in the United States Initially in...

Welcome to our scientific marvel of healing. This is the end of the beginning. A decade worth of work bringing this technology to the community, and a beginning of a lifetime of healing in this center...

Patients who come to the Scripps Proton Therapy Center can first expect to be received in an aesthetically very pleasing environment. Most radiation therapy facilities and virtually all proton...

This has been around for over sixty years. It has been used clinically since the late 1950s. The limiting factor until about twenty years ago was that you couldn't do it on a large-scale and...

The simplest way to think of the difference between protons and x-ray therapy is that x-rays do not stop. Protons do. By that I mean that when I treat a patient with x-rays, the beam goes in one end...

Richard Bevan-Thomas MD: Let's take a moment to talk about radiation therapy for prostate cancer. How does radiation work? Well, we talked about surgery which is the removal of the prostate...

My name is Huan Giap. I am a physician at Scripps Proton Therapy Center. For the past 15 years practicing radiation oncology, I have been looking for better treatment, for better ways to treat my...

Proton therapy is an incredibly versatile tool because of its ability to spare normal tissue. In effect you could use protons to treat anything, almost anything, you would treat with x-rays so you...

We’re delighted, we’re, in fact, ecstatic to be the home of the very first Proton Treatment Center in the Baltimore-Washington area, and just the twelfth in the entire United States. Proton therapy...