In the News
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It was a perfect day for Megan
06/16/11 | Pine Journal | Download as a PDFMore than 2,000 people turned out for Megan Wegge’s benefit Sunday in Sturgeon Lake, a number more than eight times the population of the northern Minnesota town. ... Read More
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Hoosier Football Staff to Participate in Jill’s House Classic
06/07/11 | Indiana HoosiersBLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Indiana head football coach Kevin Wilson and the football staff will participate in the eighth annual Jill's House Classic on Thursday, June 9. The event will be held at The Donald Ross Course at French Lick Resort. ... Read More
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Minnesota girl in the fight of her young life against rare form of cancer
05/29/11 | Duluth News Tribune | Download as a PDFWhen Megan Wegge twice donated her long, blond hair to “Locks of Love” last year, she didn’t know that when she was 12 she would lose all of her own hair to the effects of chemotherapy. ... Read More
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IU, Osaka University researchers to focus on cancer-fighting proton therapy during symposium
05/23/11 | IU News RoomBLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Physicists and radiation oncologists from Japan will visit Indiana University Bloomington May 25-26 as part of the Osaka University-Indiana University Scientific and Clinical Symposium at the Integrated Science and Accelerator Technology Hall and Indiana University Health Proton Therapy Center. ... Read More
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Therapy with a sci-fi feel
05/16/11 | News-SentinalMonday through Friday this month, Carroll High School freshman Jacob Wilford heads to a 4-foot-thick walled room. He lies face up on a robotic bed. A mesh mask, made to conform to the shape of his head, keeps his head immobilized. ... Read More
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Cyclotron renaming, President’s Medal to emeritus professor highlight rededication ceremony
04/13/11 | IU News RoomThe Indiana University Board of Trustees on Thursday will rededicate and rename the IU Cyclotron Facility as the Integrated Science and Accelerator Technology (ISAT) Hall. ... Read More
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Proton therapy: Worth the cost?
03/10/11 | Cincinnati Enquirer | Download as a PDFFor nine weeks, Dr. Barry Simon underwent daily treatments that required bombarding cancer cells in his prostate with a stream of protons. But after the 20-minute sessions at Indiana University's Health Proton Therapy Center in Bloomington, Simon often would spend the afternoon cruising the countryside. ... Read More
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Beecher teen plays waiting game with treatments complete
02/23/11 | Northwest Indiana TimesBeecher, Ill. | For 33 sessions, 15-year-old Jonathan Larson would lay perfectly still, sometimes as long as almost three hours, to make sure the cancerous tumors on his spine were receiving the proton radiation therapy and no healthy tissue was damaged. ... Read More
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Beecher teen starts treatment
12/16/10 | Northwest Indiana TimesBeecher, Ill. | When he was in the hospital in October getting one of the many cancerous tumors on his spine removed, 15-year-old Jonathan Larson's friends gave him a pillow with a simple phrase on it -- "Beat it and defeat it." ... Read More
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IU Simon Cancer Center physician/researcher heads American Radium Society
06/25/10 | IUSM NewsroomA physician/researcher at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center has been named president of the American Radium Society ... Read More