Innovative cancer treatment helps spare healthy tissue in kids
Scripps Health and Rady Children’s Hospital are helping their first pediatric proton patient, 17-year-old Natalie Wright, celebrate the completion of her treatment at the Scripps Proton Therapy Center. Natalie has a brain tumor that, due to its location, was inoperable. That’s when Natalie’s family turned to Scripps and Rady Children’s. Proton therapy uses a pencil-thin beam of radiation to treat the tumor while minimizing damage to the surrounding tissue, which can be beneficial to pediatric patients with tumors in sensitive areas, like the head and neck.
Scripps Health and Rady Children’s have partnered to treat pediatric cancer patients with proton therapy. Read the news release to learn more.