{"id":76910,"date":"2018-03-14T10:43:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/hospitals-use-protons-to-fight-cancer"},"modified":"2018-03-14T10:43:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T17:43:07","slug":"hospitals-use-protons-to-fight-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/hospitals-use-protons-to-fight-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals use protons to fight cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hospitals-use-protons-to-fight-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The difference between traditional radiation and proton therapy is in how the radiation is delivered.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional therapy irradiates tumors with X-ray waves, and all tissue along the beams\u2019 path gets a similar dose of radiation.<\/p>\n<p>Proton therapy instead uses beams of protons, charged subatomic particles that can be controlled with magnets. A small amount of radiation is deposited on the way into the body, most of it goes directly into the tumor, and none passes through the other side.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/lifestyles\/health\/ct-protons-therapy-cancer-20180314-story.html\">http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/lifestyles\/health\/ct-protons-t...story.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between traditional radiation and proton therapy is in how the radiation is delivered. Traditional therapy irradiates tumors with X-ray waves, and all tissue along the beams\u2019 path gets a similar dose of radiation. Proton therapy instead uses beams of protons, charged subatomic particles that can be controlled with magnets. A small amount of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}