Proton Therapy

Radiation Therapy with Less Side Effects

Beaumont’s Proton Therapy Center is one of the most innovative and comprehensive image-guidance systems for proton beam therapy available today, offering patients a safer cancer treatment option with less side effects.

Proton therapy is a high-tech alternative to conventional radiation therapy (X-ray radiation), offering greater precision to destroy cancerous cells and spare adjacent healthy tissue with less side effects. Beaumont was the first to offer a Proton Therapy Center in Michigan.

With proton therapy at Beaumont, our team of proton specialists scan the tumor with the proton beam, spot-by-spot, layer-by-layer. The nearby healthy tissues and organs receive significantly less radiation dose, resulting in less damage to healthy tissue and decreased risk of secondary malignancies.

Proton therapy treats

• Brain and base of skull tumors (less dose to the brain, optic nerves and spinal cord).
• Breast cancer (less dose to the heart and lung in left breast cancer).
• Gastrointestinal, abdominal and pelvic tumors (lower dose to small bowel, liver, kidneys and bladder).
• Head and neck tumors (less dose to salivary glands and oral cavity).
• Lung and thoracic tumors (less dose to the heart, lung and often esophagus than X-rays).
• Pediatric cancers (reduced side effects and reduced second cancers).
• Prostate cancer (lower doses to rectum and bladder, especially with absorbable spacer).
• Recurrent tumors (potential to cure tumors that failed conventional radiation).
• Soft tissue tumors/sarcomas (advantages depend on tumor site).

Beaumont Proton Therapy Center tour