Last September, New Jersey resident Jerson Hsieh was hit with a double whammy. First, he was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer, a type of head and neck cancer in which malignant tumors grow deep ...

Her doctor had prescribed proton therapy with the hope it would reduce the risk that Gray, 34, will experience heart problems in the future from excess radiation. Her insurance company, Blue Cross ...

For many families, cancer is the fight of their lives, but the News4 I-Team found some are having to endure another fight they never expected: getting their treatment covered by insurance. Critics say ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - When she was just 21-years-old Mariam Tariq's world was turned upside down after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis. The UC Santa Barbara student's semester of homework and exams ...

Are a group of patients and physicians at the Roberts Proton Therapy Center of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia being treated appropriately and efficiently by insurance companies? That ...

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued an update to its recommendations for medical insurance coverage regarding the use of proton beam therapy to treat cancer. The updated ...

Feb. 03--Hampton University's four-year effort to tweak Virginia's insurance laws and boost its proton therapy program finally met with some success Thursday. The program's bill, forbidding insurance ...

Long-term financial outcomes and quality of life in partners of colorectal cancer survivors. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2020 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full ...

Insurance companies end up covering proton therapy treatment for pediatric cancer patients in 97 percent of the cases they originally deny once those decisions are appealed. Researchers analyzed five ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than 3 decades after receiving FDA approval, proton beam radiation therapy has failed to find a footing as ...

At Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, we want to make it as easy as possible for you to get proton radiation therapy. The first step is to talk with one of our patient care coordinators to find out if ...

A contingent of Fred Hutch Cancer Center – Proton Therapy staff attended the National Association of Proton Therapy (NAPT) Conference in Boston last month. The conference, which hosted 335 members ...