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Proton Radiotherapy to Reduce Late Complications in Childhood Head and Neck Cancers

08/06/2021
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Proton Radiotherapy
Toxicity
Pediatric
Secondary cancer risk

Proton beam therapy is accepted as a preferred radiation modality in pediatric cancers to minimize the late radiation side effects. This review compared the...

Neurocognitive Outcomes in Pediatric Patients Following Brain Irradiation

08/07/2021
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Craniospinal irradiation
Brain
Pediatric

Neurocognitive outcomes were evaluated in 103 pediatric brain tumor patients (proton RT n = 26, photon RT n = 30, surgery n = 47) before and after treatment...

Pediatric proton therapy

08/09/2019
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Pediatric
PBT
Dosimetry
CNS
Secondary cancer risk
Paraspinal

A review article that emphasizes proton beam therapy is an important therapeutic component in multidisciplinary management in pediatric oncology because of...

Proton beam therapy - perspectives on the National Health Service England clinical service and research programme.

01/01/2021
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Flash Irradiation
PBT
Proton therapy center
Pediatric

A review on proton therapy situation in the UK. Since the first proton therapy center opening in Manchester in 2018, by September 2019, 108 patients had started...

Superior Intellectual Outcomes After Proton Radiotherapy Compared With Photon Radiotherapy for Pediatric Medulloblastoma.

11/11/2019
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Pediatric
Medulloblastoma
Oncology

Published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, this multi-center study compared the intellectual trajectories between pediatric patients treated for...

Long-term Health Related Quality of Life in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors Treated with Proton Radiotherapy at <4 Years of Age.

01/09/2020
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Pediatric
Quality of life
Brain
Brain and CNS

Fifty-nine brain tumor children < 4 years old received PRT were followed for the median 9.1 years (5.5-18 years). The report of long-term health related quality...

The role of proton therapy in pediatric malignancies: Recent advances and future directions.

03/02/2020
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Pediatric
Toxicity
Malignancies

This systematic review provides latest outcomes data after proton therapy across the common pediatric disease sites.

It discusses the main attempts to assess...

Outcomes following limited-volume proton therapy for multifocal spinal myxopapillary ependymoma

10/11/2020
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Pediatric
Toxicity
Spinal
Radiotherapy
Craniospinal irradiation

A study by the Jacksonville group reported the disease control and toxicity in 12 pediatric patients with multifocal spinal myxopapillary ependymoma (MPE)...

Neurocognitive impairment following PT for paediatric brain tumour

10/10/2020
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Pediatric
Brain

In comparing cognitive changes after radiotherapy for pediatric brain tumors, this review reported significantly poorer cognitive outcome among patients treated...

Second tumor risk in children treated with proton therapy.

04/02/2021
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Pediatric
Secondary cancer risk

Published in Pediatric Blood & Cancer, this study by the Jacksonville group evaluated the secondary tumor risk based on the data of 1713 children that underwent...