First step-and-shoot proton arc therapy patient (IMAGE)

Corewell Health

First step-and-shoot proton arc therapy patient

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Tiffiney Beard, from Redford, Michigan, is the first patient in the U.S. treated with a highly accurate proton beam arc therapy for her rare head-and-neck cancer. She is currently cancer-free one year later.

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Emily Rose Bennett, Corewell Health

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