Proton beam therapy in the management of skull base chordomas: systematic review of indications, outcomes, and implications for neurosurgeons [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Chordomas are rare tumours affecting the skull base. There is currently no clear consensus on the post-surgical radiation treatments that should be used after maximal tumour resection.
Choi, D, Matloob, SA, Nasir, HA
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The clinical case for proton beam therapy [PDF]
Radiation Oncology, 2012 Over the past 20 years, several proton beam treatment programs have been implemented throughout the United States. Increasingly, the number of new programs under development is growing. Proton beam therapy has the potential for improving tumor control and survival through dose escalation. It also has potential for reducing harm to normal organs through
Kenneth R. Olivier +21 more
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Validation and clinical implementation of an accurate Monte Carlo code for pencil beam scanning proton therapy. [PDF]
, 2018 Monte Carlo (MC)-based dose calculations are generally superior to analytical dose calculations (ADC) in modeling the dose distribution for proton pencil beam scanning (PBS) treatments.
Ainsley, Christopher +7 more
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Towards Laser Driven Hadron Cancer Radiotherapy: A Review of Progress [PDF]
, 2014 It has been known for about sixty years that proton and heavy ion therapy is a very powerful radiation procedure for treating tumours. It has an innate ability to irradiate tumours with greater doses and spatial selectivity compared with electron and ...
Bolton, P. R. +3 more
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Proton tracking in a high-granularity Digital Tracking Calorimeter for proton CT purposes [PDF]
, 2017 Radiation therapy with protons as of today utilizes information from x-ray CT in order to estimate the proton stopping power of the traversed tissue in a patient.
Alme, J. +14 more
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Selecting patients for proton beam therapy [PDF]
Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, 2020 A transparent and equitable process for selecting patients who will benefit most from treatment at the Australian Bragg Centre for Proton Therapy as well as providing cost benefit for the investment made by government for this valuable resource, needs to be in place as soon as the Centre becomes operational, particularly for patients with more common ...
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Local treatment failure after globe-conserving therapy for choroidal melanoma. [PDF]
, 2013 Local treatment failure after globe-conserving therapy for choroidal melanoma is a surgical complication with significant morbidity to the vision and eye. Few reports in the literature have addressed this complication exclusively.
Chang, Melinda Y, McCannel, Tara A
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Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2016 Cancer therapy is a multi-modality approach including surgery, systemic or targeted chemotherapy, radiation (external beam or radionuclide), and immunotherapy. Radiation is typically administered using external beam photon therapy. Proton therapy has been around for more than 60 years but was restricted to research laboratories until the 1990s.
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Dosimetric comparison study between intensity modulated radiation therapy and three-dimensional conformal proton therapy for pelvic bone marrow sparing in the treatment of cervical cancer. [PDF]
, 2010 The objective was to compare intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) with 3D conformal proton therapy (3DCPT) in the treatment of cervical cancer. In particular, each technique's ability to spare pelvic bone marrow (PBM) was of primary interest in ...
Huh, Soon N +7 more
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Proton beam therapy for iris melanomas [PDF]
Eye, 2006 To describe the results in terms of local control, eye preservation and systemic evolution of iris melanomas treated by proton beam irradiation.Retrospective review of the charts of patients with iris melanoma treated by proton beam therapy between April 1998 and September 2002.
Bernard Asselain +11 more
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