Patients with low-grade glioma (LGG) have a prolonged survival expectancy, therefore long-term side effects caused by radiotherapy is a concern. This...

With National Cancer Database, 73,073 adult patients with primary brain tumors treated with radiation were analyzed (n = 72,635 [99.4%] photon therapy, n = 438...

A review by University of Gothenburg, Sweden. After screening 601 publications, nine articles were deemed eligible for in-depth analysis. This review found that...

The German researchers from Dresden, Essen and Heidelberg together developed a NTCP model for acute side-effects including alopecia, scalp erythema, headache...

In childhood cancer survivors, over 60% report one or more radiation-related late toxicities while half of these adverse events are graded as life-threatening...

A retrospective study was performed on 100 pediatric patients with primary brain tumors treated with PBT. Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) were diagnosed by...

This study was to analyze survival and prognostic factors for intracranial ependymoma treated with postoperative radiation therapy in the 13 main French...

A systematic review by MSKCC summarized the published clinical research, and the authors believe that widespread adoption of proton therapy will elucidate the...

A systematic review summarizes the literature regarding the role of proton therapy compared to photon therapy in the treatment of adult brain and skull base...

Reports of brainstem necrosis after proton therapy have raised concerns over the potential biological differences among radiation modalities.

A workshop was...