Das Honored with ASTRO Fellowship

Indra J. Das, Ph.D., professor of radiation oncology at the Indiana University School of Medicine, has been named a 2011 Fellow of the American Society for Radiation Oncology. The induction ceremony will be in October during ASTRO's 53rd Annual Meeting in Miami Beach, Fla. ... Read More

Life’s obstacles don’t keep New Baltimore boy down

It was only a few months ago that Nathan Fecteau, 5, was diagnosed with a form of cancer that attacked a portion of his brain. Since then Nathan has temporarily moved from his New Baltimore home to stay at a treatment center in Bloomington, Ind., but he hasn't lost the spirit or attitude that makes him who he is - which his mother says is not a typical 5-year-old. ... Read More

It was a perfect day for Megan

More 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. ...

Hoosier Football Staff to Participate in Jill’s House Classic

BLOOMINGTON, 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

Minnesota girl in the fight of her young life against rare form of cancer

When 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. ...

IU, Osaka University researchers to focus on cancer-fighting proton therapy during symposium

BLOOMINGTON, 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

Therapy with a sci-fi feel

Monday 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

Local Boy Scouts donate to the IU Health Proton Theapy Center

The Indiana University Health Proton Therapy Center would like to recognize Jake Babcock and the members of Boy Scout Troop 121 for the beatification project at the center’s Patient Resource Facility.

For the past year, Jake Babcock has worked tirelessly to demonstrate his ability to plan, organize, lead and manage a service project that he hopes will lead to his being named an Eagle Scout. Jake, along with members of Troop 121 and their... Read More

Cyclotron renaming, President’s Medal to emeritus professor highlight rededication ceremony

The 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

Proton therapy: Worth the cost?

For 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. ...