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The role transition of radiotherapy for the treatment of liver cancer in the COVID-19 era
Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 The uncontrollable COVID-19 crises in the SARS-CoV-2 high-prevalence areas have greatly disrupted the routine treatment of liver cancer and triggered a role transformation of radiotherapy for liver cancer.
Zheng Li +12 more
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External beam for the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility
, 2022 Radiotherapy using protons and heavier ions is emerging as an alternative to traditional photon radiotherapy for cancer treatment. Ions have a depth-dose profile that results in high energy deposition at the end of the particle's path, with a relatively ...
Gan, Ze Kai +6 more
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Flourish of Proton and Carbon Ion Radiotherapy in China
Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 Proton and heavy ion therapy offer superior relative biological effectiveness (RBE) in the treatment of deep-seated tumors compared with conventional photon radiotherapy due to its Bragg-peak feature of energy deposition in organs. Many proton and carbon
Yue Li +8 more
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Frontiers in Physics, 2022 Prompt gamma ray in proton therapy is the product of a nuclear reaction between a proton and a target. The characteristic energies and intensities of prompt gamma lines can be used to determine the types of elements and their amounts in the target.
Jin-Long Wang +13 more
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Results of heavy ion radiotherapy [PDF]
Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, 1995 The potential of heavy ion therapy for clinical use in cancer therapy stems from the biological parameters of heavy charged particles and their precise dose localization. Biologically, carbon, neon, and other heavy ion beams (up to about silicon) are clinically useful in overcoming the radioresistance of hypoxic tumors, thus increasing the biological ...
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2017 The vascular endothelium interacts with all types of blood cells and is a key modulator of local and systemic inflammatory processes, for example, in the adhesion of blood leukocytes to endothelial cells (EC) and the following extravasation into the ...
Nadine Erbeldinger +14 more
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The Emerging Potential of Multi-Ion Radiotherapy
Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 Research into high linear energy transfer (LET) radiotherapy now spans over half a century, beginning with helium and deuteron treatment in 1952 and today ranging from fast neutrons to carbon-ions.
Daniel K. Ebner +4 more
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National Effort to Re-Establish Heavy Ion Cancer Therapy in the United States
Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 In this review, we attempt to make a case for the establishment of a limited number of heavy ion cancer research and treatment facilities in the United States.
Arnold Pompos +6 more
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Liver Cancer, 2021 Introduction: Prospective evidence supporting the safety and efficacy of carbon-ion radiotherapy (C-ion RT) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains lacking.
Kei Shibuya +9 more
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Basics of Radiation Biology When Treating Hyperproliferative Benign Diseases
Frontiers in Immunology, 2017 For decades, low- and moderate-dose radiation therapy (RT) has been shown to exert a beneficial therapeutic effect in a multitude of non-malignant conditions including painful degenerative muscoloskeletal and hyperproliferative disorders.
Franz Rödel +9 more
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