Proton Beam Therapy Is a Safe and Effective Treatment in Elderly Patients With Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (ESCC).
05/06/2020
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Publications
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Toxicity
Survival
This study from Japan reported results of 54 esophageal cancer patients who are over 75 years old treated with PBT. 38 inoperable patients (70.4%) and 16...
Incidence and Onset of Severe Cardiac Events After Radiotherapy for Esophageal Cancer.
26/06/2020
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Publications
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Survival
The relatively higher cardiac dose exposure for esophageal cancer (EC) may result in the earlier onset of cardiac diseases. This MD Anderson study analyzed 479...
Phase II Study of Hypofractionated Proton Beam Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
28/04/2020
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Publications
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Hypofractionation
Survival
Toxicity
Published by the NCC group in Korea, this study reported outcomes of 45 patients including 37 had recurrent and/or residual disease treated with PBT to a total...
Clinical results of active scanning proton therapy for primary liver tumors.
10/07/2020
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Publications
This study reported clinical outcomes of 18 patients including 14 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and 3 patients with intrahepatic...
Proton Therapy Reduces the Likelihood of High-Grade Radiation-Induced Lymphopenia in Glioblastoma Patients: Phase II Randomized Study of Protons vs. Photons.
05/05/2020
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Publications
This is a randomized phase II trial compared the radiation-induced grade 3+ lymphopenia (G3+L), which was defined as an absolute lymphocyte count (ALC) nadir of...
Roadmap: proton therapy physics and biology
02/02/2021
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Publications
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Dosimetry
Proton therapy center
PT101
This review presented the roadmap for proton therapy development, which included further research in the advanced dose shaping capabilities of proton therapy...
Comparing second cancer risk for multiple radiotherapy modalities in survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma
10/04/2021
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Publications
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Secondary cancer
VMAT
Using Excess Absolute Risk (EAR) models, this study compared the risk of secondary cancer for Hodgkin lymphoma survivors after either IMRT or PBT radiation...
Multivariate normal tissue complication probability models for rectal and bladder morbidity in prostate cancer patients treated with proton therapy
10/10/2020
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Publications
The study included rectum and bladder DVHs, 2D rectal dose maps and relevant patient/treatment characteristics from 1151 prostate cancer cases treated with PT...
Comparative Analysis of 5-Year Clinical Outcomes and Patterns of Failure of Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) versus Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) for Prostate Cancer in the Postoperative Setting
10/11/2020
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Publications
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IMRT
This case-matched study analyzed 260 prostate cancer patients including 65 treated with PBT and 195 IMRT. At a median follow-up of 59 months, biochemical...
Proton beam radiotherapy for esophagus cancer: state of the art
10/11/2020
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Publications
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Chemotherapy
The majority of esophageal cancer patients are diagnosed with locoregionally confined disease, which is often amenable to curative intent therapy...
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