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Pediatric proton therapy

08/09/2019
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Dosimetry
Secondary cancer

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

Retrospective analysis of reduced energy switching and room switching times on throughput efficiency of a multi-room proton therapy center.

11/12/2019
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A 4-room center treating ~90 patients/day, treating for ~7 years underwent a software upgrade which reduced room and energy switching times from ~30 to~20 sec...

Dose distribution of intensity-modulated proton therapy with and without a multi-leaf collimator for the treatment of maxillary sinus cancer: a comparative effectiveness study.

11/11/2019
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Pencil Beam Scanning - PBS
IMPT

Using collimation can sharpen the penumbra towards surrounding normal tissue in the low energy region of the proton beam, this study from Japan thus examined...

Proton Beam Therapy for Locally Recurrent Parotid Gland Cancer.

07/07/2016
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This study from Japan evaluated outcomes of PBT for locally recurrent parotid gland cancer. Ten patients were treated to 70.2 Gy equivalents in 32 fractions...

High-dose conformal proton therapy for clinical perineural invasion in cutaneous head and neck cancer.

11/12/2019
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Hypofractionation

Perineural invasion (PNI) is an uncommon (5%) which refers to tumor cell invasion extensive enough to cause clinically detectable deficits of the involved...

Proton radiotherapy and treatment delay in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

07/07/2016
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Survival

Based on the national cancer database, there were total of 175,088 patients with HNSCC receiving either photon or proton RT. This analysis pointed out that...

A population-based assessment of proton beam therapy utilization in California.

01/02/2020
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Based on data from California Cancer Registry, this study reported that of the 2,499,510 people with a cancer diagnosis during the study period, 578,632 (23%)...

Minimal acute toxicity from proton beam therapy for major salivary gland cancer.

11/12/2019
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This multicenter study reported acute toxicity outcomes of patients with major salivary gland cancers registered on the Proton Collaborative Group REG001-09...

Reduced radiation-induced toxicity by using proton therapy for the treatment of oropharyngeal cancer.

01/01/2020
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Model-based approach
Quality of life

Published in the British Journal of Radiology by the Groningen group, this review paper examined the outcome reports of oropharyngeal cancer patients treated...

Comparative analysis of acute toxicities and patient reported outcomes between intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for the treatment of oropharyngeal cancer.

03/03/2020
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IMPT
Chemotherapy
VMAT

This study compared 46 IMPT and 259 VMAT patients acute toxicities and reported that IMPT was associated with lower PEG-tube placement (p = 0.001) and less...