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Prostate Advanced Radiation Technologies Investigating Quality of Life (PARTIQoL): Phase III Randomized Clinical Trial of Proton Therapy vs. IMRT for Localized Prostate Cancer.

05/11/2024
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PARTIQoL is a multi-center phase 3 randomized trial comparing proton and photon for intermediate- or low-risk prostate cancer with a primary endpoint to compare...

Setting the Stage: Feasibility and Baseline Characteristics in the PARTIQoL Trial Comparing Proton Therapy Versus Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer.

05/11/2024
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Published in the Red Journal, this is a report from the PARTIQoL trial focusing on describing the trial design, patient baseline features, clinical details of...

Secondary Cancer in Prostate Cancer Patients Treated With Advanced External Beam Radiation Therapy.

05/11/2024
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Using data of 133,898 N0M0 prostate cancer cases from the National Cancer Database, this study compared second primary cancer (SPC) probabilities among those...

Risk of radiation-induced second malignant neoplasms from photon and proton radiotherapy in paediatric abdominal neuroblastoma

08/07/2021
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Secondary cancer

This study compared the carcinogenic risk associated with 3D-CRT, IMAT and PBS-PT)in the treatment of pediatric abdominal neuroblastoma. The risk of radiation...

Trends and variations in utilization and costs of radiotherapy for prostate cancer: A SEER medicare analysis from 2007 through 2016

08/02/2021
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IMPT

Based on the SEER database, this study reported that for Medicare beneficiaries with a first-time diagnosis of prostate cancer, the utilization of IMRT, proton...

Cross-modality applicability of rectal normal tissue complication probability models from photon- to proton-based radiotherapy.

01/10/2019
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This study aimed to assess the applicability of photon-based NTCP models to rectum morbidity outcomes following PT for prostate cancer patients. The data 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...

Proton beam therapy delivered using pencil beam scanning vs. passive scattering/uniform scanning for localized prostate cancer: Comparative toxicity analysis of PCG 001-09.

11/08/2019
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Pencil Beam Scanning - PBS
Toxicity

This study compared PBS toxicity rates with those of passive scattering/uniform scanning (PS/US) in a prospective multicenter registry. For low-to-intermediate...

MRI-based IMPT planning for prostate cancer.

11/11/2019
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IMPT

Published in the Green Journal, this study led by MGH aimed to quantify the clinical applicability of converted MR images as a substitute of CT for IMPT...

Hypofractionated Proton Therapy in Early Prostate Cancer: Results of a Phase I/II Trial at Loma Linda University.

11/08/2019
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Hypofractionation

A cohort of 146 patients with low-risk prostate cancer were treated to 60 Gy (cobalt Gy equivalent) of proton therapy (20 fractions of 3.0 Gy per fraction) in 4...