Hope For Children With Brain Tumors: Proton Beam Therapy Gives Doctors Tool in Combating Difficult Disease

«Normal radiation goes through the tumor into healthy tissue and may cause collateral damage to vision, hearing, growth and learning. Proton beam therapy delivers higher doses of radiation which stop just beyond the tumor and theoretically cause less damage to healthy brain tissue».

CBS News, May 26, 2010. Read the report and play the video.