Penn Medicine | Virtua Health Proton Therapy Center

Proton therapy is a painless, noninvasive treatment that uses a beam of high-energy protons to destroy cancer cells. Doctors can finely control the beam, so it precisely targets the cancer and then stops, preventing radiation from moving through healthy tissue and surrounding organs.

Proton therapy is used to treat patients with cancer tumors located near highly sensitive areas or tumors that cannot be completely removed by surgery. Cancer types that may be treated with proton therapy include:

•  Brain 

•  Breast

•  Gastrointestinal (anal, colon, esophageal, liver, pancreatic, rectal)

•  Gynecologic (cervical)

•  Head and Neck

•  Kidney

•  Lung

•  Lymphoma

•  Mesothelioma

•  Oropharyngeal (throat)

•  Prostate

•  Sarcomas

•  Spine