Proton beam treatment at Mayo Clinic

Sept. 18, 2020

Overview

Mayo Clinic's Proton Beam Therapy Program uses the latest form of proton beam therapy: pencil beam scanning. This advance allows Mayo radiation oncologists to deliver higher doses of radiation to cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue.

Anita Mahajan, M.D., a radiation oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, discusses the latest radiotherapy research at Mayo Clinic.