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Establishing evidence-based indications for proton therapy.

10/11/2016
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Clinical Trial
PT101

An overview of current clinical trials of proton therapy published in the Red Journal. A total 122 ongoing trials with target enrolment of over 42,000 patients...

Long-term outcome of a prospective study of dose-escalated proton therapy for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer.

01/01/2017
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This MD Anderson study published in the Green Journal reported proton therapy for early stage NSCLC patients who were not suitable for SBRT due to lesion size...

PRONTOX – a randomized control trial.

10/11/2016
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Chemotherapy

Although radiochemotherapy with photons is the standard treatment for now for locally advanced NSCLC, but acute radiation-induced toxicity such as esophagitis...

Cost effectiveness

01/02/2016
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PT101

A systematic review of the cost-effectiveness of proton therapy found that proton therapy was a cost-effective option for several pediatric brain tumors...

NTCP Models for Severe Radiation Induced Dermatitis After IMRT or PT for Thoracic Cancer Patients.

04/03/2020
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IMRT

In order to analyze the incidence of acute radiation induced dermatitis (RD) and develop normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) models for severe RD in...

Joint Estimation of Cardiac Toxicity and Recurrence Risks after Comprehensive Nodal Photon vs. PT for Breast Cancer.

12/12/2016
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Toxicity

Published in the Red Journal, this study generated proton plans for 41 left-side breast cancer patients who underwent postlumpectomy comprehensive nodal photon...

Dosimetry, efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness of PT for NSCLC

28/09/2021
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This review article by the group in Beijng, China examined the available data of dosimetry and clinical outcomes of PBT for NSCLC. The review found from...

Anthropomorphic lung phantom based validation of in-room PT 4D-CBCT image correction for dose calculation

09/09/2020
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Evaluation of a 4D-virtual CT (vCT) on a porcine ex-vivo functional lung phantom based on IBA CBCT data, to monitor and manage tissue motion. The concept of the...

Consensus guidelines for implementing PBS PT for thoracic malignancies

05/05/2017
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Pencil Beam Scanning - PBS

A Consensus Guidelines for Implementing Pencil-Beam Scanning Proton Therapy for Thoracic Malignancies on Behalf of the PTCOG Thoracic and Lymphoma Subcommittee...

Effectiveness of different rescanning techniques for scanned proton RT in lung cancer patients

04/04/2018
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Repainting: Repainting (aka rescanning) has the potential to reduce interplay effects. The spacing between rescans in breath-sampled (BS) techniques was set at...