The Miami-based personal injury attorney, a prostate cancer survivor, sued his health-care insurance provider in April, accusing it of wrongfully denying him and potentially thousands of other men coverage for a lifesaving prostate cancer treatment. “It is undisputed among legitimate medical experts that proton radiation therapy is not experimental and causes much less collateral damage than traditional radiation," Scola wrote. The consensus was decisive, he said: Proton beam radiation therapy was both less invasive and more effective, Cole said. Still, more than 50 proton beam therapy clinics have opened or are planned at cancer treatment centers across the country. The new policy acknowledges that both traditional radiation and proton beam radiation are “proven and clinically equivalent for treating prostate cancer."

Source: Washington Post May 01, 2019 10:27 UTC