Santosh Yajnik

2013

How Protons are Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment

As a physician who has treated thousands of patients with cancer, I am aware of two obvious truths about my specialty of radiation oncology. First, if you give a high enough dose of radiation to a tumor, it will be destroyed. As an obvious example, anatomic bomb sized dose of radiation will destroy even the most aggressive tumor. But, alas, what would become of our patient? This brings to bear the second obvious truth about my specialty. Too much radiation kills healthy tissue.