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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...

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

01/01/2021
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Proton therapy center

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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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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Quality of life

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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Toxicity

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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Toxicity

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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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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Secondary cancer

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...

Proton therapy following induction chemotherapy for pediatric and adolescent nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

07/09/2019
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Chemotherapy
Survival

A study by the Jacksonville group. Seventeen patients with nonmetastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma underwent double-scattered proton therapy. With the median...

Normal tissue complication probability models in plan evaluation of children with brain tumors referred to proton therapy.

07/07/2019
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VMAT

40 patients treated with PBT were selected for VMAT re-plan. The VMAT and delivered PT plans were compared by dose/volume metrics and NTCP models related to...