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Patterns of failure and toxicity profile following proton beam therapy for pediatric bladder and prostate rhabdomyosarcoma (B/P-RMS).

07/08/2019
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Toxicity

This study reported outcomes of 19 patients of B/P-RMS treated with PBT. With a median follow-up of 66.2 months, 5-year overall survival (OS) and progression...

Optimizing neoadjuvant radiotherapy for resectable and borderline resectable pancreatic cancer using protons.

07/07/2019
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Approximately 25% of patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer present with non-metastatic resectable or borderline resectable disease. Preoperative...

Proton beam therapy versus stereotactic body radiotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma: practice patterns, outcomes, and the effect of biologically effective dose escalation.

07/10/2019
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With the National Cancer Database for T1-2N0 HCC patients receiving PBT or SBRT, a total of 71 patients received PBT and 918 patients received SBRT were...

A comparison of the outcomes between surgical resection and proton beam therapy for single primary hepatocellular carcinoma.

07/10/2019
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There were 314 and 31 patients with single primary nodular HCC ≤ 100 mm without vessel invasion who underwent surgical resection (SR) and PBT were analyzed. The...

Protons versus Photons for Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Liver Decompensation and Overall Survival.

07/01/2019
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Published in the Red Journal, this single-institution retrospective study compared clinical outcomes of proton versus photon ablative radiation therapy in...

Extreme hypofractionated proton radiotherapy for prostate cancer using pencil beam scanning: Dosimetry, acute toxicity and preliminary results.

07/09/2019
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Hypofractionation
Pencil Beam Scanning - PBS

A study by the research group in Prague. Two hundred patients with early-stage prostate cancer were treated with IMPT on extreme hypofractionated schedule (36...

Comparative toxicity outcomes of PBT vs IMRT for prostate cancer in the postoperative setting.

07/09/2019
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Toxicity

A case-matched cohort analysis study compared acute and late genitourinary (GU) and gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity outcomes in patients with prostate cancer (PC...

A Comparison of Patient-Reported Health-Related Quality of Life During Proton Versus Photon Chemoradiotherapy for Esophageal Cancer.

07/07/2019
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Quality of life

This study by Mayo Clinic aimed to compare Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Esophagus (FACT-E) questionnaire changes during proton (PRT) or photon (XRT...

Clinical Results of Proton Beam Therapy for Esophageal Cancer

07/07/2019
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A large retrospective study of 202 patients (90 inoperable patients and 100 patients (49.5%) had stage III/IV cancer) who were treated with PBT in Japan. This...

Concurrent chemoradiotherapy using proton beams for unresectable locally advanced pancreatic cancer.

03/04/2019
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Chemotherapy

A study by the Tsukuba group in Japan repored outcomes of 42 unresectable locally advanced pancreatic cancer patients treated with PBT and concurrent...