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Passively Scattered Proton Therapy for Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer with Clinical Perineural Invasion

08/06/2021
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Toxicity

This study reviewed the outcomes of 26 patients who received definitive or postoperative proton therapy for nonmelanoma skin cancer with clinical perineural...

Oncologic Outcomes for Head and Neck Skin Malignancies Treated with Protons

08/06/2021
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IMPT

Radiation therapy (RT) is the standard treatment for patients with inoperable skin malignancies of the head and neck region (H&N), and as adjuvant treatment...

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...

Outcomes following proton therapy for Ewing sarcoma of the cranium and skull base.

17/11/2019
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Secondary cancer

This study by the University of Florida, Jacksonville, reviewed 25 patients (≤21 years old) with nonmetastatic Ewing sarcoma of the cranium and skull base...

Clinical Outcomes of Recurrent Intracranial Meningiomas Treated with Proton Beam Reirradiation.

11/05/2019
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Reirradiation
Toxicity
Survival

This is a retrospective analysis of 16 patients who received PBRT reRT for recurrent meningiomas. The median PBRT dose was 60 Gy(RBE) and the median follow-up...

A Multi-Institutional Experience of Proton Beam Therapy for Sinonasal Tumors.

11/07/2019
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Toxicity
Reirradiation

Sixty-nine patients with sinonasal tumors underwent curative intent PBT including 42 patients received de novo irradiation and 27 received reirradiation. With...

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...